Successful women are inspirational role models for all of us, whatever our gender. When you aspire to success, inspiration must be taken from successful people, whether they are men or women. Successful women are to be found in all walks of life, including the world of business, entertainment, the literary world, political life, or social media.
There is no doubt that the idea that this is a man’s world and that it is men who provide real inspiration is outdated. There is a long list of women who operate at the top of their chosen field. Their achievements show that when given the appropriate support and opportunities, women are demonstrably just as successful as men.
Think of all the qualities that women have traditionally offered: compassion, creativity, grace, and hope for the future. Women offer the world a sense of justice and equality, something denied to them for centuries and which they have had to struggle to achieve.
Successful women show strength, courage, confidence, and determination. Women can successfully wield power in all sectors of the business world and the political arena. They have proved this through social media, where many of the best-known influencers are women.
When we list feminine strengths, we must include their intuitive natures, their capacity for patience, their ability to show empathy, and their networking skills. Men might call it gossiping, but women seem to have a natural ability to create networks of contacts.
These networks are important, as women can draw great strength from other women. Strong women often attract other strong women into their circle. Associate with a group of strong, successful women, and their approach to life will soon influence you.
Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
Katherine Johnson
When you want to seek inspiration from successful women, quotes can be an effective way of reducing the wisdom found there into easily remembered short, snappy chunks. Read through the successful women quotes that are reproduced here.
Choose several that you love and resonate with you. Any quotes that you are immediately attracted to will most likely be ones you will remember and think about in the future. You should choose some successful women quotes that genuinely inspire you. Most of them are easy to remember, but nevertheless, it is good advice to write a list of the quotes you love. Have that list near at hand so that you can read them when you feel your morale is low or you are facing problems or difficulties.
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
Successful women lead by example and show us all that we can each thrive and prosper. The route to our goals is easier if we take on board the lessons those eminent and respected women pass on to us. Their quotes distill their thoughts for us.
Best Successful Women Quotes
The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.
Serena Williams
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham Young
We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. That is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.
Hillary Clinton
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
Women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.
Amelia Earhart
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
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
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
Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm
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
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination.
Betty Friedan
It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.
Taylor Swift
I raise up my voice—not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard… We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
Malala Yousafzai
Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.
Jennifer Lopez
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.
Serena Williams
She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.
Atticus
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you’re knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.
Hillary Clinton
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
Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.
Marie Curie
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
Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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
I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
Serena Williams
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.
Malala Yousafzai
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.
Frida Kahlo
If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.
Al Anon
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
The best protection any woman can have … is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it’s all the same day.
Janis Joplin
Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.
Michelle Obama
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
I don’t have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I’m as good as anybody, but no better.
Katherine Johnson
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
You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much.
Betty Friedan
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
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.
Jennifer Lopez
If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya Angelou
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie
You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.
Melissa Etheridge
I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
Rosa Parks
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
Byron Katie
There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice.
Michelle Obama
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
Pursuing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
Benazir Bhutto
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
We’re all water from different rivers, that’s why it’s so easy to meet; we’re all water in this vast, vast ocean, someday we’ll evaporate together.
Yoko Ono
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter
Tolerance and compassion are active, not passive states, born of the capacity to listen, to observe and to respect others.
Indira Gandhi
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.
Catherine Cook
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
Jane Goodall
It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.
Byron Katie
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm
Buckle up, and know that it’s going to be a tremendous amount of work, but embrace it.
Tory Burch
Social change is brought about by those who dare and act, who can think unconventionally and who can court unpopularity.
Indira Gandhi
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
Emmeline Pankhurst
What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.
Meryl Streep
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.
Anne Sweeney
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
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
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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
We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. […] And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself?
Greta Thunberg
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
Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is most important.
Junko Tabei
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
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same as ‘making a life.’
Maya Angelou
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
Estée Lauder
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention.
Pink
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
Michelle Obama
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
Passion is the log that keeps the fire of purpose blazing.
Oprah Winfrey
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.
Rhonda Hansome
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan
I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
Yoko Ono
A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.
Melinda Gates
The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be East vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
Benazir Bhutto
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
Jane Goodall
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
Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward…In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.
Hillary Clinton
Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power.
Shonda Rhimes
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
Malala Yousafzai
Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyoncé Knowles
Think of all the successful women that humankind has witnessed. Doing this will give you the motivation you must have to make a success of your life and to achieve your goals and dreams. The successful women quotes that follow will assist you in organizing your life and making your success assured.
