Women Best Inspirational Quotes:

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

- Malala Yousafzai

topic: Motivational, Women, Voice, Inspirational Feminist, Inspirational Strong Women

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

source: "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Live Life To Its Fullest

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Success, Spiritual, Empowering Women, Strong Female

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Empowering Women

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

source: "A Mme. Curie From The Bronx" by Elizabeth Stone, www.nytimes.com. 1978.

topic: Strong Women, Believe, Home, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent Women

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Powerful, Inspirational Strong Women, Inspire Women

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

- Helen Keller

topic: Achievement, Miracle, Kickass Women, Inspire Women, Miracle Of Life

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

- Malala Yousafzai

source: Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

topic: Powerful, Feminist, Half, Women Equality, Inspirational Feminist

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Strong Women, Destiny, Names, Strong Independent, Strong Independent Women

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

- John Wayne

topic: Strong Women, Empowering, Empowerment, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent Women

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Strong Powerful Women, Women Best Inspirational

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

- Emma Watson

topic: Overcoming, Have Faith, Sometimes, Strong Inspirational, Watson

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

- Audrey Hepburn

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Positive, Makeup And Beauty, Manicures

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

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

topic: Age, Born, Male Privilege, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

You are more powerful than you think.

- Tim Cook

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Powerful Women, Strong Female, Strong Heart

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

- Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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

topic: Strong Women, Strong, Play, Women Best Inspirational

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational History, Striving For Excellence

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Inspirational, Life, Perseverance, Empowering Women, Miracle Of Life

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

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Motivational, Women, Voice, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Mother, Strong Women, Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

- Margaret Sanger

source: Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Strong Women, Courage, Struggle, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, About Success, Inspirational Achievement

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Girl, Teenage, World, Female Empowerment, That Girl

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: People, Done, Want, Independent Person, Powerful Women

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

- Madonna Ciccone

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

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Empowering Women, Inspirational Strong Women

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Entrepreneur, Different, Standing Out, Young Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment

If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Living History".

topic: Inspiring, Strong Women, Empowerment, Inspirational Career, Career Women

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Positive, Looks, Enough, Powerful Women, Motivational Leadership

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

- Margaret Thatcher

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Powerful, 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

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

source: "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Empowering Women, Women Equality

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

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

- Charlotte Whitton

source: Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Successful 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

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

- Katharine Hepburn

source: Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Independent Thinking, Powerful Women

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Country, Running, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Sad, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Time To Move On, Inspirational Adventure Time

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Strong Women, Voice, Definitions, Female Empowerment, Women Equality