Inspirational Strong Women Quotes

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.

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.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

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

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women 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.

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

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

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

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

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.

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

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

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.

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

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.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women.

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.

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

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

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.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

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.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

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

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

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.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Everyone has inside of him 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!

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

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

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