1. “If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” – Cher
2. “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” – Anne Lamott
3. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie
4. “If you’re someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably.” – Rachel Maddow
5. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey
6. “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” – Indira Gandhi
7. “All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.” – Julie Andrews
8. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” – Princess Diana
9. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” – Marge Piercy
10. “Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.” – Rosalind Russell
11. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
12. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” – Louise Hay
13. “Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.” – Julia Child
14. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa
15. “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” – Audre Lorde
16. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron
17. “You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn’t want to let fail.” – Lisa Ling
18. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
19. “If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances.” – Sallie Krawcheck
20. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
21. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” – Sonia Sotomayor
22. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” – Jennifer Lopez
23. “You can be the lead in your own life.” – Kerry Washington
24. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
25. “If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.” – Al Anon
26. “Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” – Anita Roddick
27. “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” – Madonna
28. “A woman is like a tea bag — you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
29. “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” – J.K. Rowling
30. “Everyone shines, given the right lighting.” – Susan Cain
31. “A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.” – Nancy Rathburn
32. “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
33. “The best protection any woman can have…is courage.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
34. “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie
35. “Success breeds confidence.” – Beryl Markham
36. “The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world.” – Arlene Rankin
37. “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton
38. “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
39. “People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually, a job is better for me.” – Princess Diana
40. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong
41. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou
42. “Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.” – Madame Marie du Deffand
43. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
44. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” – Ruth Gordon
45. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.” – Caroline Myss
46. “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
47. “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
48. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” – J.K. Rowling
49. “A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” – Melinda Gates
50. “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” – Rhonda Hansome
51. “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter
52. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” – Simone de Beauvoir
