QUOTES BY POWERFUL WOMEN

“If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I’m going.” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.” – Helen Keller

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

“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

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai

“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir

“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

“Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.” – Beyoncé

“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.” – Barbara Elaine Smith

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” – Peggy O’Mara

“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” – Leymah Gbowee

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton

“If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don’t, you’re simply ducking your responsibilities.” – Ann Richards

“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

“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

“Don’t take too much credit for your children – or too much blame!” – Debora Spar

“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

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

“I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.” – Jennie Finch

“A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.” – Angela Merkel

“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” – Marge Piercy

“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” – Louise Hay

“If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.” – Lori Greiner

“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

“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” – Audre Lorde

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“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

“It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.” – Maya Angelou

“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

“You can be the lead in your own life.” – Kerry Washington

“You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric

“No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” – Billie Jean King

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.” – Madonna

“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 can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” – Cher

“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

“Everyone shines, given the right lighting.” – Susan Cain

“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

“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

“The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole.” – Jane Fonda

“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

“All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.” – Julie Andrews

“You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t.” – Annie Leibovitz

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” – Princess Diana

“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

“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” – Martha Stewart

“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

“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” – Rachel Zoe

“I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.” – Thuli Madonsela

“It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.” – Emma Watson

“Don’t live life in the past lane.” – Samantha Ettus

“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” – Harper Lee

“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

“On my own I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you’re knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.” – Hillary Clinton

“If you have an idea, you have to believe in yourself or no one else will.” – Sarah Michelle Gellar

“The way you tell your story to yourself matters.” – Amy Cuddy

“I tell my daughters to have their voice in this world, and it became clear I needed to role-model that.” – Melinda Gates

“I don’t follow trends or try to compete with anyone. Everything I do stems from following my passion and my love for design.” – Guo Pei

“What I do for my work is exactly what I would do if nobody paid me.” – Gretchen Rubin,

“Run to the fire; don’t hide from it.” – Meg Whitman

 

“Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.” – Beyonce

“I had two options. One was to remain silent and never to speak and then to be killed by the terrorists. The second option was to speak up for my rights and then die. And I chose the second one.” – Malala Yousafzai

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

“I wouldn’t ask anyone to do anything I wouldn’t do myself.” – Indra Nooyi

“When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” – Ellen Page

“You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.” – Emmeline Pankhurst

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.” – Michelle Obama

“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” – J K Rowling

“There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.” – Shirley Williams

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.” – Madonna

“I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.” – Elizabeth Taylor

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” – Hillary Clinton

“I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am. – ” Princess Diana

“It’s very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be fearless.”- Anna Wintour,

“I can’t imagine people telling me what to do – I just can’t imagine it.” – Jane Campion

“I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.” – Emma Watson

“I raise up my voice – not so I can shout, but so those without a voice can be heard… we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”- Malala Yousafzai

“Men still run the world; I’m not sure it’s going so well.”- Sheryl Sandberg

“Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.”- Angelina Jolie

“You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself, there’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.” – Angela Merkel

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

“I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will.”- Amy Schumer

“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”- Roseanne Barr

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”- Oprah Winfrey

“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” – Diana Ross

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”- Ayn Rand

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”- Marie Curie

“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”- Gloria Steinem