I absolutely love inspirational quotes. They can remind us about the important things in life while giving us hope about living life on our own terms while facing tough times. Whether you are already a successful female entrepreneur or aspiring, you can learn from these powerful women. Donโt let anyone else tell you otherwise; at the end of the day, motivational quotes are a fantastic personal development tool. Here are some of my absolute favorite quotes from strong women across the globe.
Powerful Motivational Quotes for Female Entrepreneurs
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think thatโs how you grow. When thereโs that moment of โWow, Iโm not really sure I can do this,โ and you push through those moments, thatโs when you have a breakthrough. โ Marissa Mayer
โWhen youโre knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you canโt or shouldnโt go on.โ โ Hillary Clinton
โIf you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.โ โ Martha Stewart
โDonโt spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.โ โ Coco Chanel
โWhen you assume negative intent, youโre angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.โ โ Indra Nooyi
โWhatever it is that you think you want to do, and whatever it is that you think stands between you and that, stop making excuses. You can do anything.โ Katia Beauchamp, Cofounder and CEO, Birchbox
โBelieve in yourself, dream bigger and stop making excuses. You can do whatever youโre willing to work hard enough at.โ โ Katia Beauchamp, Cofounder and CEO, Birchbox
โNights are meant for embracing the decorated lights that have lost there glow to the sunlight.โ โ Ishita Gupta
โDonโt sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.โ โ Madam C.J. Walker
โDream, struggle, create, prevail. Be daring. Be brave. Be loving. Be compassionate. Be strong. Be brilliant. Be beautiful.โ โ Caterina Fake
โLife-fulfilling work is never about the money โ when you feel true passion for something, you instinctively find ways to nurture it.โ โ Eileen Fisher
โWhen I thought I couldnโt go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.โ โ Estรฉe Lauder
โEntrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.โ โ Natalie Clifford Barney
โYou need to pave your own way in the world.โ โ Lori Greiner
โI will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for what I and they contribute.โ โ Gail Blanke
โDonโt try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service.โ โ Lillian Vernon
โWhatever you do, be different โ that was the advice my mother gave me, and I canโt think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If youโre different, you will stand out.โ โ Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop
โSuccess isnโt about how much money you make, itโs about the difference you make in peopleโs lives.โ โ Michelle Obama, Former First Lady
โUntil youโre ready to look foolish, youโll never have the possibility of being great.โ โ Cher
โDonโt 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.โ โ Mary Kay Ash, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
โDefine success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life youโre proud to live.โ โ Ellen Degeneres, Comedian, Talk Show Hostess, Actress, Writer, Producer
Madeleine Albright
โYouโve got the guts to find your own purpose.โ
โWomen canโt do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.โ
โIt took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.โ โ Madeleine Albright
โOur collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.โ
Oprah Winfrey
โWhen you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.โ
โDoing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.โ
โOne of the hardest things in life to learn is which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.โ
โChallenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Donโt fight them. Just find a new way to stand.โ
โSurround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.โ
โYou get in life what you have the courage to ask for.โ โ Oprah Winfrey
โThe key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significanceโand then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.โ
โPassion is the log that keeps the fire of purpose blazing.โ
โThe best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.โ
โThe big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if youโre willing to work.โ
โYou know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.โ
โThe more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.โ
โWith every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.โ
โEvery time you state what you want or believe, youโre the first to hear it. Itโs a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Donโt put a ceiling on yourself.โ
โOver the years, Iโve interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction Iโve ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.โ
Eleanor Roosevelt
โCourage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.โ
โSurely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, โIt canโt be done.โโ- Eleanor Roosevelt
โThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.โ โ Eleanor Roosevelt
โYou must do the thing you think you cannot do.โ
โDo what you feel in your heart to be right โ for youโll be criticized anyway.โ
โI am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.โ
โBe confident, not certain.โ
โYou not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.โ
โDo one thing every day that scares you.โ
โWith the new day comes new strength.โ
โIt is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.โ
โNothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, โIt canโt be done.โโ
โThe purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.โ
โYou can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.โ
โYou have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.โ
Arianna Huffington
โWe need to accept that we wonโt always make the right decisions, that weโll screw up royally sometimes โ understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, itโs part of success.โ
โWe think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.โ
โLife is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.โ โ Arianna Huffington
โSuccess is commonly defined as money and power, but increasingly thatโs not enough. Itโs almost like a two-legged stool where you fall over if thatโs all you measure your life by.โ
โVision without execution is hallucination.โ
โWhat is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.โ
โItโs not โWhat do I want to do?โ, itโs โWhat kind of life do I want to have?'โ
โSuccess is not a straight line, itโs much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.โ
โFearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. Itโs the mastery of fear. Itโs about getting up one more time than we fall down.โ
โI do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.โ
โWe all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.โ
โAnd every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, โThis is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!โ And each day, itโs up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, โNo. This is whatโs important.โ
โI find that I am much more creative when Iโve actually taken care of myself.โ
โNaysayers have little power over us โ unless we give it to them.โ
โIf you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.โ โ Arianna Huffington
โTake risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.โ
โWhen we believe in something, we got to stay with it, even when the world tells us no.โ
โThe first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.โ
โYou canโt run your life from your inbox. The difference between failure and success is perseverance.โ
โYou have to do what you dream of doing even while youโre afraid.โ
โBeing fearless doesnโt mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears donโt hold us back.โ
โToo many of us leave our lives โ and, in fact, our souls โ behind when we go to work.โ
โDonโt buy societyโs definition of success because itโs not working for anyone.โ โ Arianna Huffington
โAre we living our dream, or are we living somebody elseโs dream?โ
โIn life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.โ
โSometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say โso what.โ Thatโs one of my favorite things to say.โ
Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook
โWomen attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that โ whatever success they have, that same success โ to their own core skills.โ
โWe cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.โ โ Sheryl Sandberg
โThere is no perfect fit when youโre looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.โ
โFortune does favor the bold and youโll never know what youโre capable of if you donโt try.โ
Sara Blakely, Founder of Spanx
โDonโt be intimidated by what you donโt know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.โ
โThe smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.โ
โItโs important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.โ
โMost of the reason we donโt do things is because weโre afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.โ
โDifferentiate yourself! Why are you different? Whatโs important about you? Why does the customer need you?โ โ Sara Blakely
โYouโve got to visualize where youโre headed and be very clear about it. Take a Polaroid picture of where youโre going to be in a few years.โ
โDonโt solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if youโre just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.โ
โFailure is not the outcome โ failure is not trying. Donโt be afraid to fail.โ
โPerseverance is the key to starting a successful business.โ
โI think failure is nothing more than lifeโs way of nudging you that you are off course.โ โ Sara Blakely
โI feel like money makes you more of who you already are.โ
โWhatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear visionโฆ Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.โ
โThere is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, โWhere is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?โ
โCourage is doing something despite the fear, and Iโve worked hard on being a courageous person.โ
Maya Angelou
โIf you donโt like something, change it. If you canโt change it, change your attitude.โ
โMy mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.โ
โPeople will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.โ
โIf youโre always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.โ
โDo the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.โ โ Maya Angelou
โLove recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.โ
โIโve learned that you shouldnโt go through life with a catcherโs mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.โ
โHate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.โ
โNo matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.โ