Inspirational Quotes by Women

Use these inspirational quotes to spur you on or to make you smile. Celebrate being a woman with these words.

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Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
Trina Paulus

Never forget to dream.
Madonna

One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller

Succeed

To be successful, the first thing you have to do is fall in love with your work.
Sister Mary Lauretta

I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
Queen Victoria

Courage

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
frightens us.
Marianne Williamson

I've not ceased being fearful, I've gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you go too far.
Erica Jong

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. you must do the thing which you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller

Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Lucille Ball

Strength

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah Winfrey

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
Bette Davis

Love

All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Lucy van Pelt, Peanuts

Inspirational Quotes on Self Belief

All serious daring starts from within.
Joan Baez

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something...
Marie Curie

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
Maya Angelou

Don't ever accept anyone else's preconceived limitations. If there's something you want to do, there isn't any reason you can't do it.
Amy Dodson

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Mae West

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You must do the thing you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase Smith

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I
have not.
Lucille Ball

He who hesitates is last.
Mae West

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

Opportunity

This chance will stand before you only once.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Keep Running

Running is the greatest metaphor for life because you get out of it what you put into it.
Oprah Winfrey

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
Carrie, Sex and the City.

I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.
Oprah Winfrey

Age

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden

The secret of staying young is live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about
your age.
Lucille Ball

Conduct

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Mae West

The best way to behave is to misbehave.
Mae West

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams

Being a Woman

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Princess Diana

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

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