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Welcome to this collection of quotes assembled to address the needs of women. Most of these inspiring sayings and encouraging quotes were written by women and express a strong woman's perspective.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anaïs Nin
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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.
- Marianne Williamson
CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Sharpen your pencil as you create the story of your life. Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anaïs Nin
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
-
Sai Baba
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-
Helen Keller
I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell. Dare to dream of your great success. Become intimate with those things which deeply motivate you and regularly work toward the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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