Don’t ever give in to self-doubt. Be strong, be brave, be inspired, be unstoppable! Use these inspiring quotes by women to help you “gain altitude!”
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”
~ Karen Lamb
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
~ Gloria Steinem
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
~ Hannah Moore
“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”
~ Gladys Bronwyn Stern
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
~ Helen Keller
“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
“Peace begins with a smile.”
~ Mother Teresa
“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
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
~ Rosa Parks
“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.”
~ Ruth Gordon
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
~ Susan J Bissonette
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
~ Virginia Woolf
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow, it empties today of strength.”
~ Corrie ten Boom
“Differences can be a strength rather than a handicap.”
~ Condoleezza Rice
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
~ Diane von Furstenberg
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
~ Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible.”
~ Audrey Hepburn
“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
~ Ayn Rand
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
~ Beverly Sills
“Character is built on life’s experience.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.”
~ Marva Collins
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.”
~ Lucille Ball
“When you can’t have what you want, it’s time to start wanting what you have.”
~ Kathleen A. Sutton
“Don’t give up trying to find your way. But do remember that sometimes it takes bending to avoid breaking.”
~ Katinka Hesselink
“Within your heart, keep one secret spot where dreams may go.”
~ Louise Driscoll
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
~ Margaret Fuller
“We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
~ Marie Curie
“To acquire knowledge, one must study. To acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
~ Marilyn vos Savant
“Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward.”
~ Hilary Clinton
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. But you can decide how you’re going to live now.”
~ Joan Baez
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
~ Judy Garland
“We turn, not older with years, but newer every day.”
~ Emily Dickinson
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
~ Ellen Parr
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”
~ Jodie Foster
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~ Anaïs Nin
“The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.”
~ Jane Fonda
“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”
~ Louise Hay
“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
“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”
~ Margaret Thatcher
“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
“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
~ Mary Kay Ash
“One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.”
~ Eva Perón
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
~ Alice Walker
“I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.”
~ Thuli Madonsela
“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
~ Bette Davis
“A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection.”
~ Nancy Rathburn
“If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.”
~ Lori Greiner
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
~ Maya Angelou
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”
~ Tina Fey