Inspirational Quotes for Women

Enjoy this collection of over 100 inspirational quotes for women. While they may not be specifically written for women or by women, they certainly can help inspire, teach and remind us how to be happy and fulfilled. I hope you enjoy these inspirational quotes for women as much as I do.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. ~Opray Winfrey

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. ~Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

You got to get it while you can. ~Janis Joplin

Everyone is a star and deserves a chance to shine. ~Marilyn Monroe

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be. ~Jon Bon Jovi

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. ~Mary Tyler Moore

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. ~Mae Jemison

Keep your fears to yourself, but share yoiur courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Attitudes are forerunners of conditions. ~Eric Butterworth

Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don’t let the statistics that someone else created affect you. ~Abraham-Hicks

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. ~Maryon Pearson

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time. ~Guy Finley

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ~Mother Teresa

Do you say that you don’t have enough time? You have exactly the same number of hours in a day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Browne

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem! ~Lauryn Hill

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers

Every woman should have a purse of her own. ~Susan B. Anthony

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. ~Oprah Winfrey

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are! ~Anandamayi Ma

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. ~Gilda Radner

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining. ~Lily Tomlin

I don't think of myself as a poor, deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. ~Oprah Winfrey

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not. ~Dinah Shore

I have discovered that patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. ~Joyce Meyer

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. ~Gloria Steinem

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie

I listen and give input only if somebody asks. ~Barbara Bush

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner

I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. ~Mae West

I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results! ~Joyce Meyer

I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day ~Smokey Robinson

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, sinners are much more fun. ~Billy Joel

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now? ~Guy Finley

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. ~Sue Grafton

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? ~Linda Ellerbee

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Charlotte Bronte

If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. ~Maya Angelou

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you. ~Marianne Williamson

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment. ~Guy Finley

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb ... and I also know that I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. ~Margaret Thatcher

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~Albert Einstein

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. ~Shirley MacLaine

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ~George Eliot

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. ~Walt Disney

It’s something unpredictable, but in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life. ~Greenday

Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more! ~Joyce Meyer

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. ~Betty Smith

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever-changing view. ~Carole King

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ~Erma Bombeck

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work. ~Mother Teresa

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Normal is in the eye of the beholder. ~Whoopi Goldberg

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~Robert F. Kennedy

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ~Helen Keller

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks, But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. ~Ruth Westheimer

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that distinguish me from a doormat. ~Rebecca West

Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Nothing is more important than that you feel good. Just practice that and watch what happens. ~Abraham-Hicks

Seize the moment, try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it, cuz we consider these minutes golden, sing for the moment. ~Eminem

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ~W. Clement Stone

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~Katherine Hepburn

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~Lewis Carroll

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides. ~Margaret Thatcher

Success is a journey, not a destination . ~Ben Sweetland

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm ~Winston Churchill

The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee! ~Guy Finley

The hunger of love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence. ~Guy Finley

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ~Winston Churchill

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it. ~Guy Finley

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~Sally Berger

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napoleon Hill

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him. ~Cher

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember – before we act – that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies. ~Guy Finley

There are only two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton

These are the things I know: you always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder, plant rosemary at your gate, keep lavender for luck and fall in love whenever possible. ~Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes

Too much of a good thing is wonderful. ~Mae West

We are what we believe we are. ~C.S. Lewis

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan

Well behaved women rarely make history. ~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

What matters most is that we learn from living. ~Doris Lessing

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ~Napoleon Hill

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. Margaret Drabble

When one begins to really feel into the spiritual dimension of their beings, they bump into love. They bump into compassion. They bump into beauty. ~Michael Bernard Beckwith

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. ~Dian Fossey

Woman are like modern paintings. You can't enjoy them, if you try to understand them. ~Freddie Mercury

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory. ~Maya Angelou

You can have everything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want. ~Zig Ziglar

You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right! ~Joyce Meyer

You can turn off the sun but I’m still gonna shine. ~Jason Mraz

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself. ~Jane Seymour

You must be the change you want to see in the world. ~Mahatma Gandhi

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do. ~Guy Finley

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

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