Quotes by women on potential, passion, courage, pushing boundaries and more that all working women should remember
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. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.– Marianne Williamson, author, lecturer, spiritual activist
If you don’t like something, change it.—Maya Angelou, Author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.—Madonna, Path-breaking singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and businesswoman
The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.—Ayn Rand, Author and thinker
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.—Elizabeth Gilbert, Author and columnist
I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.–Virginia Rometty, CEO, IBM
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work—and realizing what is an opportunity and what isn’t.—Lucille Ball, Comedienne.
So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.–Caterina Fake, Co-founder, Flickr
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.–Coco Chanel, Fashion Designer
Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.—Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur
Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.—Cher, recording artist, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes. Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.–Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-chief, Huffington Post
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, don't give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abolitionist and author
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, Author
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