8 Powerful Women Share Affirmations And Mottos To Drive Success

Here are some empowering affirmations and mottos used by Her Agenda’s Power Women to drive confidence, motivation, and abundance. 

Bestselling author Esmeralda Baezfocuses on self-talk that includes simple yet gratifying affirmations on a daily basis to drive her success and openness to opportunity. Esmeralda cites her affirmation routine as a big support to reframe her negative mindset. 

“I am beautiful. I love myself. I am confident. I am worthy of good health, joy, and peace. I am a magnet of success and attract my deepest desires. I am open to receiving unlimited prosperity, and I welcome love in all forms into my life. The universe is transforming my fears into faith and power. I am aligned with source energy. I am destined for greatness. I know my talents and accomplishments, what I have to offer, and what leads my life’s purpose.”

“Within 30 days of you telling this thing to yourself, you’re going to start believing. Your subconscious is going to start believing this.” 

Founder of the first international full-figured dance company, Akira Armstrong leans into the affirmations that came from the confidence and reassurance of her family support network, who believe in her ability.

“My confidence came from my mom. It came from certain particular women that my mom had in her life that will remind me and reassure me that ‘you’re beautiful, you’re talented. Keep doing what you’re doing. Don’t stop. Don’t give up on your dreams.’ Just as cliche as those affirmations may sound, it’s very true because it becomes embedded in your spirit, and that’s what it did for me. I think my confidence is what kept me in the game.”

Starting as a freelancer before making the transition to full-time work at REVLOLT MEDIA & TV, Ghislaine León’s affirmations focus on speaking to both her present and future self to claim her identity and goals.

“I always tell myself things like: ‘I am here to unlearn, deprogram, and decolonize my mind. And I trust that everything is here to push me closer to becoming who I’m meant to be.’ [Another thing] I say is, ‘I am successful, I am phenomenal, I am unique, and I am embracing my talents one day at a time.’”

Deesha Dyer believes in reflecting, searching for the root and intention of an affirmation to use as a healer as well as a motivator. In establishing mantras that link back to emotions and insecurities, the habit can come more easily 

 “I’m a person of faith so one of my affirmations is ‘God is and always will be.’This grounds me in the space that whatever happens, I’m going to be okay. The very basic ones like ‘I am worthy, I am gifted’ – these are things that I tell myself too. You will get a lot of no’s and negative reviews. Another one is ‘I have something to say.’ You can’t mantra and affirm yourself to death. You have to figure out the root, heal from it, and then say your affirmations so it really sticks.”

Across a multifaceted career, Alexis Kerr, VP at Hallmark brand Mahogany shares her simplistic yet visual affirmation that serves not only as motivation for how to view your future self but how that can influence your determination to do the work.  

“Imagine yourself once it’s done.”

“The work that I’ve been doing over the last couple of years it’s never been done… I always knew that it was possible, but only because I was sitting from a place of [imagining] what will happen when we get this done.”

“You’re going to hear a lot of no’s. You’ll have a lot of meetings that put you in a whole bunch of circles and where it ends up back to you and you’re doing all of the work. You will have a lot of conversations with sponsors or partners [and] they may fall through. But if you’re determined to imagine yourself when it’s done, you will just keep going. Obstacles and roadblocks shouldn’t be the end of you. They are just part of the journey. A lot of times, people quit because [of] an obstacle, and typically it’s because of our problem-solving skills.”

Host of MTV’s Catfish: The TV Show, Kamie Crawford, uses positive affirmations and critical feedback depending on what she needs in a certain moment. Kamie targets her inner self-doubt and converts negative energy into belief and confidence that she is capable of greatness,if she believes in her own abilities. 

“No matter what level you reach, self-doubt can creep in often and for me, it does it all the time. One of my favorite quotes is ‘whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can’t, you’re right.’ Because if you don’t believe it, who else is going to believe it? You have to believe that you can and if you don’t, then maybe you can’t.”

“I think another one of my mantras is: ‘what is for me will not miss me, ever.’ I believe that everything that I’m meant to have I will have and that’s just that. If it doesn’t happen it’s because it wasn’t meant to. God is preparing me for something even bigger, or there’s something else that I need to learn in the meantime to be able to get that thing.”

Triple-time Olympian Keturah Orji shares her sport-specific mottos, which equally apply to taking the plunge beyond athletics to accomplish goals in her personal life. 

“My ‘K.O. The Comp’ motto is: ‘take leaps, no limits.’ Taking leaps is supposed to be specific to triple jump. But even in life, taking that leap of faith and not knowing how things may go, [or] whether you’re qualified for something or not, and going ahead and taking that leap. When you take those leaps, there’s no limit to what you can accomplish. I would say, even within track, my motto is ‘God has not given me a spirit of fear but a spirit of power,’ which is a Bible verse. It calms my spirit and reminds me [that] what I have inside of me is not fearful; it’s powerful, and I can use that for my benefit.”

Advocate for young mothers to ensure their pathway to education, Nicole Lynn Lewis shares simple mottos that maximize her personal beliefs in the power and possibility of creating change and becoming the anchor of this.  

“I would say my motto is ‘Why not?’ I think I have a long history of challenging the norms and the ways that things have always been done and the assumptions that we make about what’s possible. So whenever I’m moving through the world, and I see something that needs to change, I’m always like, ‘Why can’t this change? Why not? Why don’t we try it? Why don’t we challenge the way that things have been done?’ And I think that’s the only way that real change happens is when we challenge the norms, and we end the assumptions that people have about the world. That’s where I think you get real authentic change.”