50 Best Motivational Quotes For Women

1. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

Helen Keller

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

Margaret Thatcher

3. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”

Katharine Hepburn

4. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

Maya Angelou

5. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Anais Nin

6. “If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.”

Al Anon

7. “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.”

Madonna

8. “A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

9. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.”

Mother Teresa

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

J. K. Rowling

11. “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”

Diane Mariechild

12. “Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.”

Byron Katie

13. “The best protection any woman can have … is courage.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

14. “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”

Marie Curie

15. “Love is anterior to Life, Posterior to Death, Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth.”

Emily Dickinson

16. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

Ayn Rand

17. “People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.”

Princess Diana

18. “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

19. “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

Charlotte Whitton

20. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

Alice Walker

21. “One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”

Virginia Woolf

22. “When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.”

Steffi Graf

23. “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.”

Erica Jong

24. “You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.”

Byron Katie

25. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.”

Ruth Gordon

26. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.”

Caroline Myss

27. “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

28. “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

29. “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

30. “Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.”

Rosalind Russell

31. “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.”

Rhonda Hansome

32. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.”

Catherine Cook

33. “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

Rosalynn Carter

34. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

Simone de Beauvoir

35. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

Brigham Young

36. “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

37. “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

38. “It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.”

Taylor Swift

39. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”

Jennifer Lopez

40. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Anais Nin

41. “She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.”

Atticus

42. “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

43. “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

Malala Yousafzai

44. “If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.”

Al Anon

45. “The best protection any woman can have … is courage.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

46. “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it’s all the same day.”

Janis Joplin

47. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

Alice Walker

48. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”

Coco Chanel

49. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Melissa Etheridge