200 Inspirational Quotes For Women to See The Great Things

Inspirational Quotes For Women – Talking about women, there are certainly many things that can be defined from a woman.

Having children, a mother, a strong grandmother, a feminist, and many others are inherent and the background of what is the role of women in life.

In this day and age, where the thinking and evolution of science are getting more sophisticated.

We are inevitably also required to be more advanced in terms of thought and life. One of which has been done by many women all over the world.

The power of women today has no limits, like in the past, many motivational things have been carried out by a woman who is able to change the world.

The role of women is no longer taken for granted these days, with many women who are able to change the world with their own inspiring hands.

Here are 200 inspirational quotes for women that inspire and change our mindset about women, their movements and inspirations that make all proud.

Inspirational Quotes For Women to See The Great Things

1. ”We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.” – Amy Dickinson

2. “I’m realizing how much I’ve diminished my own power. I’m not doing that no more.” – Alicia Keys

3. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

4. “I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving.” – Tina Turner

5. “How wild it was, to let it be.” – Cheryl Strayed

6. “The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift.” – L. A. Villafane

7. “I’ve noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I’m grateful in the end.” – Colleen Hoover

8. “Work hard, know your s—t, show your s—t, and then feel entitled.” – Mindy Kaling

9. “We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?” – Jennifer Lopez

10. “When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” – George Harrison

11. “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

12. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

13. “You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.” – Amy Poehler

14. “Don’t be afraid. Because you’re going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don’t be afraid.” – Joan Jett

15. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel

16. “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

17. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” – Princess Diana

18. “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

19. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” – Marge Piercy

20. “If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” – Cher

21. “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” – Anne Lamott

22. “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

23. “If you’re someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably.” – Rachel Maddow

24. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey

25. “You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.” – Duchess Meghan

26. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” – Oprah Winfrey

27. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Malala Yousafzai

28. “At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.” – Dr. Phil

29. “People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.” – Carrie Ann Moss

30. “I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened … it’s normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please.” – Taylor Swift

31. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

32. “For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.” – Michelle Obama

33. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” – Ruth Gordon

34. “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

35. “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

36. “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

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. “A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” – Melinda Gates

39. “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” – Rhonda Hansome

40. “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter

41. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” – Simone de Beauvoir

42. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong

43. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

44. “Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.” – Madame Marie du Deffand

45. “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 which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

46. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett

47. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

48. “Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.” – Amal Clooney

49. “Spread love everywhere you go.” – Mother Teresa

50. “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.” – Lady Gaga

51. “If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is.” – Gabrielle Bernstein

52. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn

53. “There is nothing impossible to they who will try.” – Alexander the Great

54. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler

55. “Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” – Nicole Kidman

56. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale

57. “You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.” – Kesha

58. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg

59. “One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” – Ruth Reichl

60. “One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.” – Eva Peron

61. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

62. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

63. “The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran

64. “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

65. “I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.” – Condoleezza Rice

66. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

67. “I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.” – Ellen DeGeneres

68. “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” – Harper Lee

69. “A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.” – Angela Merkel

70. “You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric

71. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes

72. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

73. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.” – Edith Wharton

74. “Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

75. “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” – B. Smith

76. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

77. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton

78. “When you’re through changing, you’re through.” – Martha Stewart

79. “Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” – Bette Midler

80. “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” – Rachel Zoe

81. “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

82. “If you’re someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably.” – Rachel Maddow

83. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey

84. “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

85. “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

86. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” – Princess Diana

87. “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

88. “I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.” – Thuli Madonsela

89. “The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole.” – Jane Fonda

90. “No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.” – Martha Beck

91. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey

92. “I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.” – Hoda Kotb

93. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel

94. “If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” – Cher

95. “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” – Anne Lamott

96. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” – Marge Piercy

97. “Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.” – Beyoncé

98. “There’s nothing more powerful than not giving a f—k.” – Amy Schumer

99. “Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.” – William Ellery Channing

100. “When it comes to luck, you make your own.” – Bruce Springsteen

101. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong

102. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

103. “Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.” – Madame Marie du Deffand

104. “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 which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

105. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” – Ruth Gordon

106. “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

107. “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

108. “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

109. “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

110. “A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” – Melinda Gates

111. “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” – Rhonda Hansome

112. “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter

113. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” – Simone de Beauvoir

114. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” – Billie Jean King

115. “It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.” – Emma Watson

116. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

117. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir

118. “Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.” – Beyoncé Knowles Carter

119. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai

120. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks

121. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estée Lauder

122. “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

123. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” – Leymah Gbowee

124. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

125. “Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down.” – Tory Johnson

126. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

127. “Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.” – Jodie Foster

128. “I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

129. “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” – Mia Hamm

130. “When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.” – Madonna

131. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” – Brené Brown

132, “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” – Arianna Huffington

133. “I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone.” – Tory Burch

134. “Everyone shines, given the right lighting.” – Susan Cain

135. “A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.” – Nancy Rathburn

136. “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart

137. “The best protection any woman can have…is courage.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

139. “Success breeds confidence.” – Beryl Markham

140. “The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world.” – Arlene Rankin

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

142. “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

143. “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

144. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

145. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

146. “The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran

147. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes

148. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

149. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.” – Edith Wharton

150. “Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

151. “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” – B. Smith

152. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

153. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton

154. “Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.” – Rosalind Russell

155. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

156. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” – Louise Hay

157. “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

158. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

159. “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

160. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron

161. “You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn’t want to let fail.” – Lisa Ling

162. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir

163. “If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances.” – Sallie Krawcheck

164. “The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole.” – Jane Fonda

165. “No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.” – Martha Beck

166. “When you’re through changing, you’re through.” – Martha Stewart

167. “Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” – Bette Midler

168. “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” – Rachel Zoe

169. “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

170. “I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.” – Thuli Madonsela

171. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey

172. “I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.” – Hoda Kotb

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

174. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” – Sonia Sotomayor

175. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” – Jennifer Lopez

176. “You can be the lead in your own life.” – Kerry Washington

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

178. “If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.” – Al Anon

179. “Whatever you do, be different that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” – Anita Roddick

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

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

182. “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” – J.. Rowling

183. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

184. “I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.” – Ellen DeGeneres

185. “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” – Harper Lee

186. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg

187. “One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” – Ruth Reichl

188. “One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.” – Eva Peron

189. “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

190.“I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.” – Condoleezza Rice

191. “A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.” – Angela Merkel

192. “You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric

193. “If you’re someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably.” – Rachel Maddow

194. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey

195. “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

197. “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

198. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel

199. “If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” – Cher

200. “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” – Anne Lamott

Those are 200 inspirational quotes for women that can be used as motivation and inspiration since how great women have made many proud changes for other women.