Ambitious Women Quotes:

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

- Helen Lawrenson

topic: Leadership, Ambitious, Determined, Determined Woman, Ambitious Women

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

- Thomas Overbury

source: "The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,

topic: Ambitious, Bees, World, Troublesome, Ambitious Women

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art, Powerful Women, Women Equality

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

- Sheryl Sandberg

source: Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

topic: Inspiring, Sexy, Husband, Good Husband, Leaning In

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

- Beyonce Knowles

topic: Views, Feminist, Perception, Inspirational Feminist, Kickass Women

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

- Timothy Leary

source: "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Women, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you rather than threaten you and make you feel like you’re immediately being compared to them. The only thing I compare myself to is me, two years ago, or me one year ago.

- Taylor Swift

source: "Taylor Swift on 1989, Spotify, Her Next Tour and Female Role Models". Interview with Jack Dickey, time.com. November 13, 2014.

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Smart, Killing It, Other Girl

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Powerful, Badass, Women, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Motivational, Mother, Fashion, I Am Strong, Inspirational Feminist

Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Feminist, Challenges, Inspire, Killing It, Ambitious Women

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Fashion, Self Determination, Empowering Women

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

- Clare Boothe Luce

topic: Inspirational, Women, Bad Ass, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Motivational, Women, Feminist, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Women And Love

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Strong Women, Equality, White, Women Equality, Strong Independent Women

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Strong, Mets, Powerful Women, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Powerful Women

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "On a wing and a prayer" by Maxie Szalwinska, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2007.

topic: Motivational, Women, Blessing, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Powerful Women

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Female

I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Strong, Empowering, Tragedy, Inspirational Feminist, Women Strength

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Inspirational, Country, Women, Women Equality, Inspirational Feminist

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Witty, Strong Women, Independent, Indian Patriotic, Women's Suffrage

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

- Charles Cumming

topic: Ambition, Intelligent, Journey, Concessions, Ambitious Women

Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.

- Tina Fey

topic: Children, Hard Times, Years, Ambitious Women, Upper Middle Class

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

- Kathryn Minshew

source: "A Movement: The Daily Muse" by Kathryn Minshew, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

topic: Fighting, Ideas, Guy, Chick Flick, Unheard

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

- Mitch Horowitz

topic: Spiritual, Voice, Ambitious, Spiritualism, Ambitious Women

Marla [from Rules Don't Apply] especially, believed that she has a certain set of rules that she had to abide by, in order to be successful in Hollywood. How she acted, how she approached things and even in her relationship with her mother - there were a lot more rules and regulations expected of ambitious women, even before they got into the door.

- Lily Collins

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Mother, Successful, Doors, Ambitious Women, Rules And Regulations