Powerful Women Quotes

There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.

Even as a woman who has a voice in the world, I struggle to find it, to use it, to keep it, to stretch it, to take risks with my words. And I don't think I'm alone. I think the most powerful women among us struggle with how to use their voice. Because I think what every woman knows, is that when she speaks her truth she is at risk - whether it's Hillary Clinton or a rural woman in Rwanda.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold!

I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest

You are more powerful than you think.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

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

I loved cinema from a very young age. I was also obsessed with Hitchcock and actresses like Kim Novak in Vertigo. They all played heroines and were strong, powerful women, yet they were very feminine.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

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

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

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.

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.

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

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.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

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

Do one thing every day that scares you.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

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

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.