100+ BEST MOTIVATIONAL AND INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR WOMEN

Nowadays we keep listening about women empowerment but still many areas in our world do not give enough respect to women. Unfortunately, women are often overlooked because of the biological challenges and social obligation. But according to the motivational quotes for women, the truth that is women are the base of the development of our society even if a part of our society does not believe it. They derive more because they are the ones who are the reason for educating and upraising the morale of the upcoming generation, says a motivational quote for women.

No matter how male-dominating and patriarchal this world is, women are the one who has maintained the balance all over. Feminism is a newly arrived concept but the role and contribution of women in these worlds have been seen in our history as well, mentioned in a motivational quote for women. These motivational quotes for women are proof that women have thrived in every era and every situation, till now nothing has succeeded to come in the way to their success.

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Here is the compiled list of best motivational quotes for women which can empower you,

“Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.” –  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

“Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.” – Yulia Tymoshenko

“Success as a woman has changed me. That’s what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.”- Jacqueline Bisset

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”  -Estée Lauder

“Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention.”  -Pink

“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.” -Margaret Thatcher

“A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” -Rhonda Hansome

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”  -Eleanor Roosevelt

“I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” -Mary Wollstonecraft

“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”-Melinda Gates

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.” -Louisa May Alcott

“Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life.”— Dr. Mae Jemison

“Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power.” -Shonda Rhimes

“Power is not given to you. You have to take it.” Beyoncé Knowles

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” ― Jane Austen

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ― Charlotte Brontë

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” ― Brigham Young

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephron

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.” ― Mark Twain

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” ― Virginia Woolf

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

“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!”  -T D Jakes

“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”  -George Meredith

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” -Diane Von Furstenberg

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” -Katharine Hepburn

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” -Maya Angelou

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” -Janis Joplin

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin

“If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.” -Al Anon

“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

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” –Madonna

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

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” -Mother Teresa

“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” -J. K. Rowling

“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“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

“A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.” -Nancy Rathburn

“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” -Diane Mariechild

“I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” -Amelia Earhart

“Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.” -Edna Gardner Whyte

“The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” -Marie Curie

“Success breeds confidence.” -Beryl Markham

“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

“The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world.” -Arlene Rankin

“Love is anterior to Life, Posterior to Death, Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth.” -Emily Dickinson

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

“Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of, you know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife, wow!” -Barack Obama

“People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.” -Princess Diana

“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

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

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker

“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.” -Virginia Woolf

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” -Maya Angelou

“Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.” -Madame Marie du Deffand

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller

“When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.” -Steffi Graf

“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” -Erica Jong

“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.” -Byron Katie

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” -Ruth Gordon

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.” -Caroline Myss

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” -Helen Keller

“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.” -Margaret Thatcher

“Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.”  -Yulia Tymoshenko

“Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.”  -Lady Gaga

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.”  -J. K. Rowling

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

“It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.”  -Taylor Swift

“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”  -Jennifer Lopez

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”  - Anais Nin

“She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.”  -Atticus

“And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong, and full of fire and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.”  -Mark Anthony

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a b*tch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” -Maya Angelou

“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

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”  -Malala Yousafzai

“If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.” -Al Anon

“The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it’s all the same day.” –Janis Joplin

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”– Alice Walker

“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.”– Sheila Murray Bethel

“Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is.”  -Anne Frank

“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”  -Jennifer Lopez

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”  -Eleanor Roosevelt

“You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.”   -Melissa Etheridge

“Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.”  -Byron Katie

“The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world.” -Arlene Rankin

“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

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” -Rosalynn Carter

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.”  -Catherine Cook

“If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” -Grace Hopper

“It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.”  -Byron Katie

“Buckle up, and know that it’s going to be a tremendous amount of work, but embrace it.” –Tory Burch

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” -Florence Nightingale

“What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” -Meryl Streep

“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”  -Anne Sweeney

“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

“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

“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

“We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.” -Susan B. Anthony

“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

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.” -Sheila Murray Bethel

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” -J. K. Rowling

“Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.” -Rosalind Russell

“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

“You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.” -Marsha Evans

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

“A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” -Rhonda Hansome

“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

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” -Rosalynn Carter

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” -Simone de Beauvoir

“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

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” -Brigham Young

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