Powerful Women Quotes - Page 4

• You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

  Marsha Johnson Evans

  Success, Strong Women, Fall

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• I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Strong Women, Voice

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• Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Perfection, Leader, Authenticity

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.100, Knopf

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• You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• I will follow you to the ends of the world.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cute Love, I Love Him, Romantic Love

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.413, A&C Black

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• You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  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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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Success, School, Impact

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Children, Fear

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• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Way, Firsts, Helping

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Drawing

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

  Marissa Mayer

  Motivational, Strong Women, Successful

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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  The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sad

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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  There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

  Madeleine Albright

  Strong Women, Business, Independent Women

  "Q&A with Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post, on Donald Trump, sleep and the media". Interview with Laura Newberry, www.masslive.com. April 29, 2016.

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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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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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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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• You got to be ready for everything in life

  Dilma Rousseff

  Powerful, Culture, Ready

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• I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Intelligent, Courageous

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