Successful Women Quotes - Page 5

• We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Strong Women, Powerful, Empowering

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• If you don't risk anything you risk everything

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Hippie

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• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

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

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• The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Strong Women, Empowering, Individuality

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• If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

  Melinda Gates

  Positive, Success, Inspiration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Business, Hard Work, Empowerment

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• You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

  Melinda Gates

  Helping, Empowering Women, Inspirational Women

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

  Emma Donoghue

  Successful, Fiction, Novelists

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Mother, Husband, Mean

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• Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Successful, Want, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Successful, Age, Survivor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

  Sheila Johnson

  Successful, Ego, Males

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

  Beth Brooke

  Sports, Strong, Successful

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• A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.

  Orlan

  Moving, Eye, Successful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Successful women don't sleep until noon.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Sleep, Successful, Noon

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• Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Courage, Powerful

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• Concrete examples of successful women and their stories of achievement are the best inspiration and [means of] empowerment for other women to seek the heights in their professional career and take a leading role in society.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Inspiration, Mean, Successful

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Block, Successful, Men

  "Prison, revolution and reconciliation". Interview with Jonathan Steele, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2009.

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• When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Successful, Young

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 18, 2010

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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• Growth and comfort do not coexist.

  Ginni Rometty

  Strong Women, Growth, Comfort

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Megan Barnett, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.'

  Chelsea Handler

  Wall, Successful, Empowering

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