Famous Women Quotes - Page 3

• If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.

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• What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Laughter, Truth

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• Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspirational, Graduation, Encouraging

  "Bloody Wonderful: Goodbye, Anita Roddick" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2007.

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• Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

  Helen Caldicott

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

  Mia Michaels

  Motivational, Levels, Becoming

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• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Change, Truth

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• In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

  "Happy 60th Birthday, Whoopi Goldberg! Our Favorite Quotes From The Actress" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Uplifting, Ideas, Focus

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Aug 15, 2011

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• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

  Gayle Forman

  Moving On, Letting Go, Hands

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.94, Penguin

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• Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Being Yourself, Positivity

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• Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

  Marlee Matlin

  Individual Differences, People, Effort

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• Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Fear

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

  Anne Sweeney

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

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• All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

  Carolyn Porco

  Children, Grandma, Teaching

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• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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  I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong Women, Want Something, Iron

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• A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Sad, Anniversary

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• I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.

  Bobbi Brown

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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