Woman Leader Quotes:

Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

- Charlotte Bunch

topic: Years, Leader, Style, Leadership Style, Woman Leader

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

- Rosalynn Carter

topic: Motivational, Leadership, People, True Leader, Funny Leadership

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

- Sara Blakely

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

topic: Confidence, Fear, Famous Motivational, Inaugural Speech, Child Of God

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Heart, Use, Great Minds, Inspiration To Others

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Fear, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

- Whoopi Goldberg

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Women Leadership, Outstanding Leaders

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: World, End Of The World, Ends, Woman Leader, Inspirational Women

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

- Marian Anderson

topic: Leadership, Understanding, Needs, Women Leadership, Best Leader

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

- Joan Baez

topic: Men, Giving, Feminist, Softness, Men 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

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

- Emily Murphy

topic: Fighting, Thinking, Civilization, Magistrates, Woman Leader

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Perfection, Leader, Individuality, Women Leadership, Woman Leader

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Dream, Women Leadership, Leaders Motivational

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Inspirational Charity, Women Leadership

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

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

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Positive, Success, Business, Business Woman, Woman Leader

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

- Pat Robertson

source: "Robertson Letter Attacks Feminists". www.nytimes.com. 1992.

topic: Husband, Children, Women, Socialist Party, Man Hating

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

- Queen Victoria

source: To A. J. Balfour, in 'Black Week', December 1899

topic: Leadership, Inspirational Life, Winning, Strong Women Motivation, Woman Leader

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

- Rebecca West

topic: Girly, Peace, Time, Radical Feminism, Women Equality

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

- J. K. Rowling

source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Make The Right Choice, Making Good Choices

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Success, School, Impact, Women Leadership, Business Woman

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

- Margaret Thatcher

source: Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

topic: Leadership, Business, Women, Top Management, Personal Power

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Country, Citizens, Half, Woman Leader

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

- Madeleine Albright

source: "Q&A with Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post, on Donald Trump, sleep and the media". Interview with Laura Newberry, www.masslive.com. April 29, 2016.

topic: Business, Women, Helping Others, Empowering Women, Special Places

Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

- Nancy Pelosi

topic: Running, Country, Strong Women, Inspirational Feminist, Career Women

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Positive, Graduation, Women, Women Leadership, Inspiring Graduation

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Ripple, Keep Your Faith

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

- Arianna Huffington

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

topic: Opposites, Powerful Women, Successful Women, Business Woman, Overcoming Failure

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

- Roseanne Barr

source: "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women, Powerful Women, Women Equality

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Positive, Success, Inspiration, Women Leadership, Less Fortunate

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

- Marian Wright Edelman

source: Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.107, Harvard University Press

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Women, Woman Leader, One Person Can Make A Difference

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Inspiring, Strong Women, Sex, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

- Shirley Chisholm

topic: Girl, Equality, Emotional, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

- Kofi Annan

source: Twitter post from May 11, 2016

topic: Inspiring, Empowerment, Tools, Men Women, Woman Leader

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

- Charlotte Bunch

topic: Leader, Vision, Needs, Woman Leader