Famous Women Quotes

• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

  Maureen Dowd

  Funny, Success, Motivational Sports

  "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Women, Writing

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  Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, New Year, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

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• Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

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  A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Strength

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• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

  Cicely Tyson

  Greatness, Deep Thought, Trying

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  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

  Life, Encouraging, Being Strong

  "Our Precarious Habitat". Book by Melvin A. Benarde, 1970.

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• I am not afraid; I was born to do this.

  Joan of Arc

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Fear

  "While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt" by Heidi Schlumpf, (p. 37), 2009.

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• We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Strength, Confidence, Perseverance

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Motivational, Leadership, People

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• I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

  Calamity Jane

  Motivational, Girl, Strong Women

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• I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Success, Business, Women

  "International Women’s Day: Celebrate the Noisemakers of Past, Present, and Future" by Natalie MacNeil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Strength

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Successful, Helping Others

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

  Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

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• You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman's looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she's ugly, but everyone else thinks you're an idiot.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Thinking, Hands

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  Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Happiness, Smile

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Advice, Want

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2014

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• Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Life, Diversity

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “LITTLE WOMEN SERIES – Complete Collection: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Jo's Boys: The Beloved Classics of American Literature: The coming-of-age series based on the author’s own childhood experiences with her three sisters”, p.402, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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