Successful Women Quotes

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

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.

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

Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important.

A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.

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

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

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.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

When I first went on TV, to make you look like a successful woman you had to be ball-breaking. I remember looking at these shows and thinking 'I'm not sure that's me'. It seemed like you had to behave like a man - but I think that's all going to go down completely, that's not the way we're going to live.

Successful women have an aura that says ‘I belong in this seat’.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

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

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'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.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

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 most frightens us.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

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.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

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

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

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.