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88 Empowering Quotes + 6 Tips to Boost Your Energy

Looking for empowering quotes to motivate and inspire you? Well then, you’re in the right place! We all know the feeling you get when your energy dwindles. Sometimes, life demands more from you than you are capable of giving at that moment. Below, you will find some nice, empowering thoughts.

Times of crisis like the ones we find ourselves in continually rouse feelings of fear and uncertainty. The fight between world-weariness and fear for the future is tiring and drains our energy resources, making it harder to cope with everyday tasks. A healthy work-life balance helps with this.

Below, we’ve gathered 88 quotes and texts that will restore your confidence as well as six tips that will rekindle your spirit, helping you to believe in yourself and your abilities once more.

88 Quotes about Empowering Yourself and Others

88 Quotes about Empowering Yourself and Others

Use this collection of empowering quotes to remind yourself or others of their own strength. You can also use them to show that things will always pick up again after difficult times and your energy will be restored.

Here you will find more empowering quotes about self love.

Short Empowering Quotes

Short Empowering Quotes

These empowering quotes below will inspire and motivate you with just a few short words. Why not write your favorites on sticky notes and stick them in areas you will see every morning, like the mirror or the fridge?

That way, you can be sure you will start your day feeling strong and empowered each and every morning.

In this article you will find more motivational quotes.

  1. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
    (George Eliot, English writer, 1819-1880)
  2. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    (Theodore Roosevelt, American president, 1858-1919)
  3. No pressure, no diamonds.
    (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, 1795-1881)
  4. Whatever you are, be a good one.
    (Abraham Lincoln, American president, 1809-1865)
  5. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
    (Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551 B.C.-479 B.C.)
  6. Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
    (André Gide, French writer, 1869-1951)
  7. Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
    (Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, 1809-1849)
  8. You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
    (Jane Austen, British writer, 1775-1817)
  9. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
    (F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, 1896-1940)
  10. All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
    (Francis of Assisi, catholic saint, 1182-1226)

Inspirational Quotes about Empowering Others

Inspirational Quotes about Empowering Others

It is not enough to be empowered yourself, but you should also aim to empower others who need it. This can also be very fulfilling and add to your own strength and resilience.

A good leader is one who empowers others to be the best version of themselves for no benefit of their own.

  1. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.
    (Edith Wharton, American writer and designer, 1862-1937)
  2. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
    (John Adams, 2nd President of the United States, 1735-1826)
  3. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
    (Unknown)
  4. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1803-1882)
  5. In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.
    (John Erskine, American writer, 1879-1951)
  6. Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
    (Mark Twain, American writer, 1835-1910)
  7. To lead people, walk beside them. As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence… When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, “We did it ourselves!”
    (Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 365 B.C.-290 B.C.)
  8. No one is useless in this world who lights the burdens of others.
    (Charles Dickens, English writer, 1812-1870)
  9. Not for ourselves alone are we born.
    (Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and statesman, 106-43 B.C.)
  10. They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
    (William Penn, English theologian, 1644-1718)

Quotes for Self-Empowerment and Self-Growth

Quotes for Self-Empowerment and Self-Growth

Self-growth, otherwise known as personal growth or personal development, is the process of pushing yourself to reach your highest potential. This can be adapting or improving behavior, skills, actions and reactions among other things.

The quotes below will empower you to become the best version of yourself.

  1. Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
    (Theodore Roosevelt, American president, 1858-1919)
  2. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
    (Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 365 B.C.-290 B.C.)
  3. What we think, we become.
    (Buddha, founder of Buddhism, 560 B.C.-483 B.C.)
  4. The only journey is the journey within.
    (Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian storyteller and lyricist,1875-1926)
  5. What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1803-1882)
  6. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
    (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1856-1950)
  7. Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
    (Chinese Proverb)
  8. Be the change you want to see in this world.
    (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian revolutionary, 1869-1948)
  9. He who has why to live for can bear almost any how.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900)
  10. A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.
    (Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, 121-180)
  11. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
    (Mark Twain, American writer, 1835-1910)
  12. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
    (Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, 1817-1862)

Hopeful Quotes about Strength

Hopeful Quotes about Strength

In this category, you will find empowering quotes about hope, trust and your potential. Use these quotes to make yourself feel good.

They will remind you that everything you need to cope with your tasks is already inside you.

  1. God does not face us with tests without also giving us the strength to endure them.
    (Edith Stein, German philosopher, 1891-1942)
  2. Energy dwindles
    When the spirit falters.
    Strength grows
    When the spirit copes.
    (Heinrich Martin, German writer, 1818-1872)
  3. Believing in yourself is strength
    and strength is joy
    and joy is life
    and life is achieving
    and achieving is victory!
    (Cäsar Flaischlen, German poet, 1864-1920)
  4. Human will is a material force, like steam, and in the moral world, nothing can withstand this power.
    (Honoré de Balzac, French novelist, 1799-1850)
  5. Some things are too much for our physical strength, and we can only get through them with our spiritual power.
    (Wilhelmine von Hillern, German writer, 1836-1916)
  6. Deep inside of us bubbles a source of infinite strength that never runs dry and wants to emerge to give spirit to your everyday life.
    (Unknown)
  7. The idea that penetrates life gives immeasurable strength and power, and this power comes from this idea alone.
    (Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher, 1762-1814)
  8. Life’s greatest strength is thanks.
    (Hermann von Bezzel, German Lutheran theologian and school rector, 1861-1917)
  9. The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
    (Paul Cezanne, French artist, 1839-1906)
  10. If there is faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one’s own strength.
    (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Moravian-Austrian writer, 1830-1916)

Quotes about Inner Strength

Quotes about Inner Strength

What gives us power is our own strength. Here, you will find empowering quotes about inner strength and everything you can overcome with it.

  1. Consciousness of our strength increases it.
    (Luc de Clapiers, French philosopher, 1715-1747)
  2. All strength is only recognized by obstacles which it can overcome.
    (Immanuel Kant, German philosopher, 1724-1804)
  3. The first and most important thing in life is that one seeks to control himself, that one peacefully subjects himself to that which can’t be changed and looks at every place, both the exhilarating and the unpleasant, as somewhere from whence his inner nature and his essential character can create strength.
    (Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist, 1767-1835)
  4. Rapid inner progress can only be achieved through powerful shocks. If one desires it, then one must not shy away from these.
    (Carl Hilty, Swiss politician, 1833-1909)
  5. Inner organized unity produces unwavering, fearless strength of character; it seeks nothing, it fears nothing; every happenstance finds it serious and austere, mild and firm, but always unshakable.
    (Ernst Weiß, Austrian doctor, 1882-1940)
  6. It is an egregious nameless feeling when the inner self recognizes its own strength, when it becomes clearer and clearer, and our spirit is firmly and strongly lifted. We feel everything in us, our strength strives towards heaven and sees no target surrounding itself.
    (Friedrich von Schiller, German playwright, 1759-1805)
  7. Life consists not only of great events and powerful effects that harden our character by invoking our strength, but rather of a chain of trials and tribulations, that are too minor to hurt but tire through their constant resurgence and disturb our inner harmony.
    (Arthur Stahl, German writer, 1830-1876)
  8. Inner cheerful strength, the courage of life, the healthy development of an entire being is the real belonging.
    (Henrich Steffens, Norwegian philosopher, 1773-1845)

Quotes about Empowerment and Courage

Quotes about Empowerment and Courage

From time to time, it is necessary to be quite clear with yourself and make yourself aware that you are in charge of your own strength. Sometimes, restoring your strength requires courage. Courage to deal with your own problems.

The empowering quotes below should remind you of your courage, of the courage you need to free you from your crisis.

  1. A person who courageously affirms their destiny, who assumes responsibility for it and freely determines it, becomes deeper and wiser as a result, while a person who rejects responsibility and tries to flinch from the task becomes insignificant and flat.
    (Richard Wilhelm, German theologian, 1873-1930)
  2. There are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
    (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, 1854-1900)
  3. Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
    (Publius Ovidius Naso, Ancient Roman poet, 43 B.C-17 A.D.)
  4. The path to your goals begins on the day you take one hundred percent responsibility for your actions.
    (Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and philosopher, 1265-1321)
  5. More power is found in suffering than in doing, more strength in going without than in enjoying.
    (Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder, German satirical, 1741-1796)
  6. Trust is courage, and loyalty is power.
    (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Moravian-Austrian writer, 1830-1916)
  7. He who reflects too heavily upon the consequences cannot be brave.
    (Abu Talib Kalim, Persian poet, 1581-1651)
  8. […] It takes strength to endure injustice, but it takes courage to end it. […] (Berthold Auerbach, German writer, 1812-1882)
  9. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
    (Mark Twain, American writer, 1835-1910)
  10. Great emergencies and crisis show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
    (William James, American philosopher, 1842-1910)
  11. When hope flees you,
    Don’t let courage escape you.
    Hope often deceives us,
    Courage is the breath of power.
    (Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz, German writer, 1786-1870)

Uplifting Texts That Give You Strength

Uplifting Texts That Give You Strength

A lot of the time, you need more than a few words to boost your spirit. Here you will find empowering quotes that show you that you aren’t alone in your troubles and that crises can always be overcome.

  1. Whenever you think you can’t go on and feel like you are on your own with your problems – you can be sure that at least a hundred other people have already had the same troubles as you do now. And like them, you too can overcome your problem. You are not alone.
    (Unknown)
  2. […] And an adverse fate may well pursue thee for a time – oh, then the blissful conviction of the innocence of thy heart, from the honesty of thy intentions, give thee unusual strength and serenity; Thy sorrowful countenance grows in encounters that arouse far more interest than the face of the smiling, grinning, happy-seeming villain.
    (Adolph Freiherr von Knigge, German jurist, satirist and Enlightenment philosopher, 1752-1796)
  3. Sun on my skin, I can not be rid of – even if I sometimes wish it.
    The proximity empowers me, indeed – but when it is gone, I am quiet.
    Sometimes my energy dwindles, I don’t know how it happens.
    For days, I was without spark, nothing binds itself to me, only the wind sings its song.
    Now give me light and give me warmth, so my heart may recover,
    the city full of pandemonium, when I am picked up in the morning.
    I can’t go on, what else can I do?
    Has no one any idea, not even a clue?
    I believe what’s needed is summer,
    so I no longer feel so alone.
    Because it’s the sun with the answer –
    it will give me strength.
    (Unknown)

Quotes about Confidence

Quotes about Confidence

This category contains empowering quotes that let you know that things are never as bad as they seem. They will inspire confidence and help you realize you are capable of anything you set your mind to.

  1. A person is never alone: self-confidence means that there are always two I’s in a room.
    (Jean Paul, German writer, 1763-1825)
    Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
    (Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, 1813-1887)
  2. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
    (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, 1749-1832)
  3. One should never despair too soon.
    (Frederick the Great, King of prussia, 1712-1786)
  4. It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
    (Epicurus of Samos, Greek philosopher, 341 B.C.-270 B.C.)
  5. The wings of an eagle grow in flight.
    (Proverb)
  6. When Fortune smiles, I merry grow,
    And sing in dulci jubilo;
    When sinks her wheel, and tumbles me o’er,
    I think ’tis sure to rise once more.
    (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, 1749-1832)
  7. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
    (Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, 1817-1862)
  8. The day will come that will solve everything.
    (Friedrich Schiller, German dramatist, 1759-1805)
  9. When everything fails, then joyfully and confidently believe that your plans were misguidedly invented before God and that their failure is your salvation. Sometimes things have to go wrong for us to understand how others feel when we destroy their plans.
    (Carl Hilty, Swiss politician, 1833-1909)
  10. Grief looks back, worry looks around, confidence looks forward.
    (Unknown)
  11. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
    (Charles Dickens, English writer, 1812-1870)
  12. I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
    (Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, 1832-1888)

Quotes about Willpower

Quotes about Willpower

This category contains empowering quotes that relate to willpower and will allow you to reach new levels of motivation.

The quotes listed here are little energy-boosters and should provide you with self-confidence and assertiveness.

  1. Human will is the dominating power of the universe.
    (Christian August Crusius, German philosopher, 1715-1775)
  2. Willpower is man’s greatest strength.
    (Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet, 1782-1846)
  3. It is written in the Book of Destiny:
    If the afterworld should call you with blessings,
    You must be able to bear the curse of the world around you.
    (Ernst Raupach, German writer, 1784-1852)
  4. You must go your own way, even when it is dark.
    (Unknown)
  5. […] I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
    (Thomas Paine, English writer, 1737-1809)
  6. Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.
    (Publius Ovidius Naso, Ancient Roman poet, 43 B.C-17 A.D.)
  7. Say: I am me! And as you say it, feel it, too: In your little me of your big me’s breath.
    (Unknown)
  8. Stone can be broken, but you cannot defeat its hardness.
    (Lü Buwei, Chinese philosopher, 291-235 B.C.)
  9. A succession of small acts of will achieve a large result.
    (Charles Baudelaire, French poet and aesthetician, 1821-1867)
  10. May you want! Human will is human destiny.
    (Ernst von Wildenbruch, German writer, 1845-1909)
  11. From your bed to the ends of the world, there are only two steps: willpower and belief.
    (Honoré de Balzac, French novelist, 1799-1850)

Tips to Boost Your Energy

Tips to Boost Your Energy

Below, we have six ideas for how you can reduce stress in your everyday life and regain strength. Some simple treatments can relieve stress, such as listening to music, for example. But there are also exercises you should first master, to efficiently reduce stress.

Simple treatments have a weaker effect, but are suitable for the meantime. Complex exercises take longer, although they lead to lasting lower stress levels in the long term.

More Energy with Healthier Posture

When you are lacking spirit and your energy reserves are reaching their end, it is probably noticeable. Your shoulders slouch, so does your head, and your back is hunched.

An upright posture allows you to breathe better, which circulates more oxygen around your body. The more oxygen available to your body, the more energy it can provide.

In addition, an upright posture also supports your self-confidence and you will exude more self-assurance.

Music as a Strength Provider

Music has an energy-providing effect. After all, we are conditioned to associate certain melodies or songs we frequently listen to with an accompanying feeling. So when you feel you are lacking spirit, music can help by lifting your mood.

Ideally, you should create a playlist with feel-good songs that you know will always put you in a good mood.

Meditate to Relax

Meditation is all about bringing yourself to a state of total relaxation and rejecting negative thoughts while accepting positive emotions. By doing so, you can keep your energy capacity up.

There are varying meditation techniques for different issues. Meditation is one of the more complex exercises and it must first be mastered before you can achieve your desired effect.

Learn Your Boundaries

Learn Your Boundaries

Creating boundaries around certain things is also something worth mastering. This is because often, it is not your own daily issues that drain your energy, but the issues of those around you.

When your friends ask you for help or for your opinion, it is, of course, commendable when you follow through on these requests. But make sure that you communicate sensibly and are clear about how much time and energy you can devote to it. Only by stating your boundaries can you be aware of when these boundaries have been reached.

Otherwise, you’ll end up trying to tackle too many tasks at once and become even more stressed and overwhelmed, which will drain your energy once more.

Pay Attention to Your Diet

There are actually foods that steal your energy, rather than provide it. You might be familiar with feeling exhausted after lunch. It takes a lot of energy for your body to digest food.

Carbohydrates in particular lead to a short energy boost followed by a food coma. Other energy thieves include wheat, sugar and alcohol.

Keep a Diary

Keep a Diary

Organizing your thoughts and simply writing down whatever is going through your mind can really help you to unwind. As soon as you find the words for your concerns and put them on paper, you can sort them out sooner than if they had been lingering in the back of your mind for weeks.

Don’t commit to any concrete schedule of how often you’d like to make diary entries, otherwise the act of writing itself may end up becoming a stressful task. When you feel like it’s all becoming a bit too much for you and you need an outlet, then simply write down exactly that.

Your choice of words and phrasing aren’t bound to any rules. Write whatever crosses your mind with whatever words you come up with first. Because you’ll never have to justify or explain what’s in your journal.

It can work much more effectively if you read back on your entries afterwards and realize you’ve gotten through this issue.

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