Words have limitless power over how we think, act, and communicate. Words help us develop our best life, affirm our health and find balance. These 120 most empowering words will change how you talk to yourself and to others absolutely shape the path of your life.
What are Words?
Have you ever stopped to think about the complexity of words?
Words, in essence, are a combination of sounds that come from our throats and are shaped by our mouths, and each word has a different vibration and a different meaning. The energy of this vibration and meaning has the power to interact with our bodies and change our own energies.
“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.”
Yehuda Berg
Changing Your Negative Words to Empowering Words
The act of changing our words from negative ones to empowering ones is one of the most transformational things we can do for the betterment of our lives!
How often do we respond with words like:
“Dammit Dawn, you’re such a klutz.”
“I’m so sorry, I’m a terrible friend, I’m 30 minutes late to our lunch date.”
It’s natural for us to respond to ourselves with negative words when something negative happens. But how could our day, our spirit, our life change if we changed those negative words to positive ones?
“Oops, I didn’t mean to spill the water. I’ll just go clean it up!”
“Thank you so much for waiting for me! Our lunch date is so important to me, but something unavoidable happened.”
Changing our negative words to positive ones helps us respond differently to ourselves after a mistake. It also implies growth mindset.
I’m not going to get into a growth mindset here, but basically, it implies that your intellect, success, talents, skills, and other aspects of your life can be learned and developed.
In contrast, a fixed mindset is a belief that people are just simply “born that way”. Some people are just dumb. Some people are just lucky. Some people just have natural talent.
A growth mindset is essential for learning and growing! As a mother, having a growth mindset is imperative to the growth of development of my boys… children learn first and foremost through learned behaviors from their parents.
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How to Use Empowering Words
Empowering words can have a variety of uses. They can build you up, help you feel at ease, change your mindset, give you courage, or many other things.
So these self-empowerment words may seem very different, but in truth, empowerment, just like enlightenment, is not just one-sided.
Affirmations
You can use affirmations to give you a boost in mindset. They can make you feel empowered, in-love, at peace, or any number of different feelings.
Writing
When you’re writing to empower others, convince others of an idea, or keep someone’s attention, lukewarm words will likely put your readers to sleep! Use powerful words to elicit a strong emotional reaction from your readers.
Business
In marketing and copywriting, strong words can help you convince your ideal market to try your product. Powerful words are essential for persuasive writing of any kind.
Women’s and Girl’s Empowerment
If you use these words for discussions with your daughters or need to use them for women’s empowerment events, they’re sure to build others up in your life. These 120 words can be used as empowering words for females or empowering words to describe a woman. Women are NOT the weaker sex—prove it to them!
Use your empowering words by using Affirmation Cards!
List of 120 Most Empowering Words
These words might be varied, but they are all positive, powerful words to help empower your life in whatever way you need!
Use these 120 empowering words for a variety of things: affirmations, copywriting, business, or just for life! Put the power back into your life!
- abundance
- adventurous
- ambitious
- astonishing
- astounding
- attractive
- audacious
- authentic
- awe-inspiring
- badass
- beautiful
- belief
- blessing
- bliss
- bravery
- breakthrough
- breathtaking
- brilliance
- captivating
- charismatic
- classy
- clever
- colossal
- commit
- compelling
- confident
- curious
- decadent
- dedicated
- deliberate
- delight
- devoted
- discover
- divine
- dream
- driven
- ease
- effective
- effortless
- elevated
- empower
- enliven
- enrapture
- enrich
- enthralling
- epic
- exciting
- exclusive
- fantasy
- feisty
- ferocious
- fierce
- free
- genius
- glorious
- grace
- grit
- heaven
- hero
- honor
- I* (You)
- imagine
- impact
- innovation
- inquisitive
- insight
- inspiration
- intellect
- intentional
- invest
- jaw-dropping
- jubilant
- life-changing
- love
- luxury
- master
- mind-blowing
- miracle
- money
- now
- overwhelm
- passion
- perseverance
- pleasure
- power
- prevail
- purpose
- radiant
- refined
- renew
- save
- sensational
- sensual
- sexy
- smart
- soaring
- soothe
- soul
- speechless
- spirit
- strength
- stunning
- stupendous
- supernatural
- surrender
- temptation
- tenacity
- thriving
- trailblazer
- transform
- unbreakable
- unique
- unleash
- unlimited
- unstoppable
- virtuoso
- visionary
- whole
- wild
- worthy
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Annette Kinglock-Murray
Monday 12th of July 2021
There are some phrases that you have to part ways with. They say life and death are in the power of the tongue and your thoughts become your actions. Eventually, they will control your behavior and the way you live your life.
Natalie
Thursday 26th of March 2020
I love all of these words, right now I believe that right now all we have is our words.
Eva Martin
Tuesday 24th of March 2020
Love that! Very useful especially for non-native english speaker like me. I will definitely make a use of it when writing and speaking. Thank you!
Amy
Tuesday 24th of March 2020
This list is amazing! I try to live a very positive life, but do still seem to criticize myself more than anyone. Thank you for sharing. I'm definitely going to think about this more now!
Kristen
Monday 23rd of March 2020
I need to work on changing my negative thoughts/words to positive ones. Such a great list of words that I NEED to use more often.