“I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn’t need to hide behind her husband’s back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don’t play victim, you don’t make yourself look pitiful, you don’t point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high and you carry the universe in your heart.”
― C. JoyBell C.
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Women all around the globe, I know there are days when you don’t think you can be the superwoman you are; you sit on your own cape and feel powerless. I know there are days when you cannot bring yourself to move, so you remove “move mountains” from your to-do list. I know about these days, because I have gone through them, and still go through them (grow through them?). On days like that when you need a stronger dose of motivation, you need someone to tell you to go ahead and run the world, you need this post. Today, I will be sharing with you, 65 most powerful and inspirational quotes by women that will encourage you to be the boss lady you are!
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Inspirational quotes by women who have done a wow
- “I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” – Joan Rivers
- “Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform.” – Susan B. Anthony
- “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
- “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estée Lauder
- “If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I’m going.” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir
- “Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.” – Beyoncé Knowles Carter
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
- “The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran
- “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
- “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball
- “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.’” – Dilma Rousseff
- “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong
- “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” – Smith
- “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” – Peggy O’Mara
- “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
- “You can’t give up! If you give up, you’re like everybody else.” – Chris Evert
- “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “Be first and be lonely.” – Ginni Rometty
- “There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.” – Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo
- “Look your best – who said love is blind?” – Mae West
- “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
- “You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.” – Benazir Bhutto
- “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.” – Condoleezza Rice
- “I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.” – Jennie Finch
- “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” – Marge Piercy
- “Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.” – Julia Child
- “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa
- “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
- “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron
- “You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn’t want to let fail.” – Lisa Ling
- “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
- “If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances.” – Sallie Krawcheck
- “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” – Jennifer Lopez
- “When you feel copied, remember that people can only go where you have already been, they have no idea where you are going next.” – Liz Lange*
- “You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric
- “Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down.” – Tory Johnson*
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.” – Jodie Foster
- “When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.” – Madonna
- “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” – Brene Brown
- “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” – Arianna Huffington
- “I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone.” – Tory Burch
- “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie
- “If you’re someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably.” – Rachel Maddow
- “When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.” – Bethenny Frankel
- “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey
- “If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” – Margaret Thatcher
- “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” – Anne Lamott
- “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” – Indira Gandhi
- “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” – J. K. Rowling
- “We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.” – Chanda Kochhar
- “Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” – Bette Midler
- “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” – Rachel Zoe
- “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” – Melissa McCarthy
- “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
- “I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.” – Ellen DeGeneres
- “When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’” – Jada Pinkett Smith
- “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer
“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”
– Harper Lee
I hope you choose to be wise! 😉
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That is all we have on today’s post 65 inspirational quotes by women who have done a wow. Was this helpful? Will you be recommending it to others too? If we haven’t covered your favorites, then do share them with us in the comment section. We grow by learning from each other, right?
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