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365 Empowering Quotes from Empowered Women
The world has given women equal probabilities, but some belittle themselves and cower once opportunities are overwhelming.
Look at the world from an empowered woman’s perspective, be that character who acknowledges that the sky is her only limit.
With the ideal frame of mind, we can consistently produce noteworthy results. If there’s some inevitable occurrence that imperils our tranquility, we gravitate to oppose the antagonism. I have my swipe file of positive quotes.
Every end of the year, we recollect, mull over, and examine those factors we have accomplished. Where we are right now, what have we done, and where do we want to go?
In 365 days the previous year we sought encouragement from motivational quotes of the influential names in our industry. Or perhaps somebody who made an effect in our life helped us shift our mindset.
I have invariably been a fan of excerpts, and I make some in my own terms, but most often than not, I quote famous people's comments; those resonate with me.
Frequently, we read famous men who were referred to, but here in this compilation, I have preferred phrases from strong and empowered women—those women who created an imprint in entrepreneurship, writing, show-business, courtroom and many more.
If you need a boost and amp you up when you lack some confidence, these are 365 quotes from roughly 200 empowered women who established a difference in the same system you live in. You can use these quotes anytime once you feel you need a kick-start.
Here's to your 365 days and be that empowered woman empowering other women!
1. No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February. -Suze Orman
2. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
3. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller
4. If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances. - Sallie Krawcheck
5. Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. - Eileen Caddy
6. The best entrepreneurs have a sense of purpose that drives them. -Esther Dyson
7. Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities. - Bozoma Saint John
8. There is no scientific answer to success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. - Anita Roddick
9. You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. - Diane von Furstenberg
10. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin
11. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.- Helen Keller
12. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. - Golda Meir
13. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. - Anais Nin
14. We don't stop going to school when we graduate. - Carol Burnett
15. If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
16. If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go. - Sara Blakely
17. The most effective way to do it, is to do it. - Amelia Earhart
18. You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. - Joyce Meyer
19. What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. – J. K. Rowling
20. If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. - Dolly Parton
21. I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.- Estée Lauder
22. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
23. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou
24. You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else. - Chris Evert
25. When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. — Suze Orman
26. Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform. - Susan B. Anthony
27. Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. - Diane Sawyer
28. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
29. Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down. - Tory Johnson
30. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel
31. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. - Ayn Rand
32. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. - Anais Nin
33. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. -Lucille Ball
34. I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.- Thuli Madonsela
35. Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. - Oprah Winfrey
36. I was smart enough to go through any door that opened. - Joan Rivers
37. I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes. - B. Smith
38. It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith. - Emma Watson
39. Because nobody goes through life without a scar. - Carol Burnett
40. It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.
- Joyce Meyer
41. Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. - J. K. Rowling
42. You create your opportunities by asking for them. - Shakti Gawain
43. If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities. - Ann Richards
44. Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people. - Diane Sawyer
45. 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
46. We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection. - Anais Nin
47. You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.
- Leymah Gbowee
48. Power's not given to you. You have to take it. - Beyoncé Knowles Carter
49. Elegance is refusal. - Coco Chanel
50. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
- Lucille Ball
51. I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does ot doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anais Nin
52. Recast your current problems into proactive goals. - Suze Orman
53. We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted. - Carol Burnett
54. So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them. - Ginni Rometty
55. You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. - Shonda Rhimes
56. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. - Ayn Rand
57. A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.- Sonia Sotomayor
58. If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably. - Rachel Maddow
59. Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. - Oprah Winfrey
60. People living deeply have no fear of death. - Anais Nin
61. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
– Helen Keller
62. You will never win if you never begin. - Helen Rowland
63. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. - J.K. Rowling
64. All great achievements require time. - Maya Angelou
65. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
- Amelia Earhart
66. Be first and be lonely. - Ginni Rometty
67. I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.
- Dilma Rousseff
68. The way in which you carry yourself, even when seated at a desk, matters.
-Ivanka Trump
69. It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent. - Madeleine Albright
70. One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.- Ruth Reichl
71. Look your best - who said love is blind? - Mae West
72. You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. - Benazir Bhutto
73. It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
- Margaret Thatcher
74. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller
75. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin
76. I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
-Maya Angelou
77. Done is better than perfect. - Sheryl Sandberg
78. There is nothing more beautiful than a confident woman. - Suze Orman
79. I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical. - Carol Burnett
80. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey
81. No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. - Martha Beck
82. Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. - Coco Chanel
83. When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. - Eleanor Roosevelt
84. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall
85. When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged. - Carol Burnett
86. The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. - Peggy O’Mara
87. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
88. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck
89. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. - J. K. Rowling
90. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. - Jane Austen
91. Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. - Margaret Thatcher
92. Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
- Joyce Meyer
93. Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men. - Katherine Johnson
94. 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
95. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe
96. When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life. - Suze Orman
97. Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. - Barbara Corcoran
98. Love what you do. There's always going to be someone else who's smarter than you, but there's no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart.- Ivanka Trump
- Mary Kay Ash
100. I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.
- Marissa Mayer
101. It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. - Esther Dyson
102. I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
103. You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want. - Oprah Winfrey
104. You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn. - Carol Burnett
105. Growth and comfort do not coexist. - Ginni Rometty
106. Fearlessness 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. - Arianna Huffington
107. A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. - Marge Piercy
108. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin
109. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. - Eleanor Roosevelt
110. I am not a has-been. I am a will be. - Lauren Bacall
111. Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.- Maya Angelou
112. I have no limitations because I believe in myself. - Parineeti Chopra
113. The more things you do, the more you can do. - Lucille Ball
114. Dreams are necessary to life. - Anais Nin
115. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey
116. A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. - Suze Orman
117. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher
118. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.- Angela Merkel
119. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. - Anais Nin
120. I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
- Arianna Huffington
121. I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone. - Tory Burch
122. Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.- Maya Angelou
123. Cherish forever what makes you unique, coz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
- Bette Midler
124. Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. - Alice Walker
125. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. - Ayn Rand
126. No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed. - Billie Jean King
127. I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. - Maya Angelou
128. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
129. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. - Carol Burnett
130. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. - Dolly Parton
131. It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling
132. There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. - Anais Nin
133. A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt
134. Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. - Brene Brown
135. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
136. Everyone shines, given the right lighting. - Susan Cain
137. The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. - Anais Nin
138. Nothing will work unless you do. -Maya Angelou
139. When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it. – Madonna
140. I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! - Eleanor Roosevelt
141. Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
- Coco Chanel
142. Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. - Gloria Steinem
143. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball
144. I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. - Louise Hay
145. Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. - Maya Angelou
146. I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there. - Carol Burnett
147. If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner. – Cher
148. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- Lucille Ball
149. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. - Maya Angelou
150. The challenge is not to be perfect...it’s to be whole. - Jane Fonda
151. Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. - Oprah Winfrey
152. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller
153. If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is. - Angelina Jolie
154. You must do the things you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
155. I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger. - Mia Hamm
156. It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. - Anais Nin
157. A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. - Maya Angelou
158. Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
159. 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
160. The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves. - Barbara Corcoran
161. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. - Anais Nin
162. You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
- Alice Walker
163. Don’t take too much credit for your children — or too much blame! - Debora Spar
164. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. - Oprah Winfrey
165. Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change, or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing. - Bozoma Saint John
166. If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. - Maya Angelou
167. Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. - Coco Chanel
168. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller
169. Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. - Nora Ephron
170. If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher
171. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
172.You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion. - Ginni Rometty
173. The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
- Audrey Hepburn
174. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anaïs Nin
175. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
176. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand
177. Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey
178. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
- Maya Angelou
179. Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.
- Jennifer Lopez
180. I am not afraid... I was born to do this. - Joan of Arc
181. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn
182. You just can't beat the person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth
183. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. - Julie Andrews
184. The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Ayn Rand
185. I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale
186. If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. - Princess Diana
187. You will never win if you never begin. - Helen Rowland
188. Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak. - Rachel Zoe
189. Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Sasha Cohen
190. Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. - Pauline Kael
191. I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.- Hoda Kotb
192. What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good. -Maya Angelou
193. 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
194. Find out who you are. And do it on purpose. - Dolly Parton
195. Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. - Julia Child
196. There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. -Anais Nin
197. Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that. - Michelle Obama
198. In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
- Simone de Beauvoir
199. I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is! - Bozoma Saint John
200. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine. - Bethenny Frankel
201. I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
- Condoleezza Rice
202. The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. - Margaret Thatcher
203. The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
204. There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change. - Anne M. Mulcahy
205. Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. Mary Kay Ash
206. Know what you want to achieve prior to starting to negotiate. It's the golden rule but the one most people fail to heed. Without a plan, you allow the opposing party to define your goals instead of the other way around. - Ivanka Trump
207. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
- Barbara Corcoran
208. I have a backup plan. Everybody should have a backup plan. I am a banker. The day you all get bored of me and don't want to watch my films, I will go back to banking.
- Parineeti Chopra
209. Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset. - Ileana D'Cruz
210. Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from. - Jodie Foster
211. When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. - Simone de Beauvoir
212. Give to yourself as much as you give of yourself! This means you have to put yourself first. - Suze Orman
213. Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt
214. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. - Anais Nin
215. You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. - Sonia Sotomayor
216. We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day. - Chanda Kochhar
217. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Oprah Winfrey
218. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee
219. I got my own back. - Maya Angelou
220. Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they’re helping the company to be successful.
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
221. I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
- Alice Walker
222. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Ruth - Bader Ginsburg
223. If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe
224. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
- Oprah Winfrey
225. I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. - Marie Curie
226. Everything is physics and math. - Katherine Johnson
227. Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty, and insecurity. - Joyce Meyer
228. To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. - Jane Austen
229. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. - J. K. Rowling
230. You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. - Annie Leibovitz
231. If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong
232. No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. - Jessica Savitch
233. Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. - Alice Walker
234. A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. - Mary Kay Ash
235. When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. - Audre Lorde
236. Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee
237. When you’re through changing, you’re through. - Martha Stewart
238. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. - Maya Angelou
239. Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins. - Edith Wharton
240. If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier. - Lori Greiner
241. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.- Ayn Rand
242. I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.
- Jennie Finch
243. Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
- Madonna Ciccone
244. Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.
- Melissa McCarthy
245. We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. - Alice Walker
246. We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! - Maya Angelou
247. Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good. - Dolly Parton
248. You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. - Tina Fey
249. I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices. -Madonna Ciccone
250. When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone. - Melissa McCarthy
251. Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. - J. K. Rowling
252. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt
253. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
254. You can be the lead in your own life. - Kerry Washington
255. Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. - Mary Kay Ash
256. You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.- Katie Couric
257. I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion. - Ellen DeGeneres
258. Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with. - J. K. Rowling
259. Don’t live life in the past lane. - Samantha Ettus
260. I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. - Ayn Rand
261. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Helen Keller
262. On my own, I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
- Oprah Winfrey
263. People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand
264. You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. - Carol Burnett
265. When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today. - Jada Pinkett Smith
266. Storms make trees take deeper roots. - Dolly Parton
267. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker
268. Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. - Julia Child
269. Ask anyone who's successful how they got there; you're going to hear a different story. - Carol Burnett
270. People first, then money, then things. - Suze Orman
271. There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. - Mary Kay Ash
272. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
- Simone de Beauvoir
273. To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing, and that's real power. - Ayn Rand
274. Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck
275. If you ask me, there's nothing more incredible than a woman who's in charge of her own destiny - and working daily to make her dreams a reality. - Ivanka Trump
276. The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.
- Alice Walker
277. One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
278. I restore myself when I'm alone. - Marilyn Monroe
279. Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
280. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. - J. K. Rowling
281. If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.- Margaret Thatcher
282. If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. - Erma Bombeck
283. It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
- Alice Walker
- Mary Kay Ash
285. So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them. - Ginni Rometty
286. Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. - Harper Lee
287. I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. - Dolly Parton
288. One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
- Madonna Ciccone
289. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm; as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others. - Audrey Hepburn
290. Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
291. There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
- Jane Austen
292. The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror! - Joyce Meyer
293. It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from. - Suze Orman
294. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. - Ayn Rand
295. This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues. - Diana Nyad
296. You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. - J. K. Rowling
297. My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. - Jane Austen
298. Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. - Alice Walker
299. All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time. - Julie Andrews
300. Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.
- Joyce Meyer
301. Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious! - Katherine Johnson
302. Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
- Maria Montessori
303. Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. - Marie Curie
304. We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. - Marilyn Monroe
305. The key to success is, to be honest, follow your passion, and not someone else's path.
- Urvashi Rautela
306. I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. - Dolly Parton
307. If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
308. I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.
- Sonia Sotomayor
309. When you feel copied, remember that people can only go where you have already been, they have no idea where you are going next. - Liz Lange
310. The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem. - Suze Orman
311. If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it, and they should too. - Barbara Corcoran
312. Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.
- Ivanka Trump
313. No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. - Mary Kay Ash
314. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough. -Marissa Mayer
315. When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.
- Anne M. Mulcahy
316. We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics. - Joyce Meyer
317. Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
318. Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
- Esther Dyson
319. I think women have a unique talent for being able to see the forest and the trees at the same time. Bozoma Saint John If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. - Alice Walker
320. Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it. - Suze Orman
321. You have to live the mission... love what you do. - Anne M. Mulcahy
322. Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try.
- Bozoma Saint John
323. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. - Marilyn Monroe
324. To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
325. Never love something so much that you can't let go of it. - Ginni Rometty
326. When you need to innovate, you need collaboration. - Marissa Mayer
327. You build your own strategy. You don't define it by what another competitor is doing.
- Ginni Rometty
328. Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there and that you're just discovering them. - Stephenie Meyer
329. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future; act now, without delay.
- Simone de Beauvoir
330. You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try. - Dolly Parton
331. One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. - Madame de Stael
332. A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash
333. If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
- Anita Roddick
334. It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person. - Stephenie Meyer
335. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather
336. Just try new things. Don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right? - Michelle Obama
337. Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them. - Madame de Stael
338. There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.- Indira Gandhi
339. Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
- Marilyn Monroe
340. You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you. - Suze Orman
341. I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. - Willa Cather
342. The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. - Anita Roddick
343. I've never made a move that I didn't feel was right in my gut. - Bozoma Saint John
344. The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. - Ayn Rand
345. You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. - Brene Brown
346. 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
347. Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. - Michelle Obama
348. You are a human being and are allowed to be imperfect, and you are allowed to be flawed. There is a lot of beauty in your imperfections, in your uniqueness. - Ileana D'Cruz
349. I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. - Alice Walker
350. If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. - Marilyn Monroe
351. If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
- Anita Roddick
352. Don't let others define you. You define yourself. - Ginni Rometty
353. A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
354. Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes. - Esther Dyson
355. If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force. - Marissa Mayer
356. Criticize the act, not the person. - Mary Kay Ash
357. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I'm a big believer in that. - Ivanka Trump
358. Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. - Anne Lamott
359. But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.
- Arianna Huffington
360. Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes, and an open spirit. - Rachael Ray
361. The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. - Maya Angelou
362. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. - Oprah Winfrey
363. Energy begets energy. - Dolly Parton
364. There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person. - Joyce Meyer
365. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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