Successful Women Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old successful women quotes, successful women sayings, and successful women proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
To all the little girls who are watching, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. Hillary Clinton
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
Courage is not not being afraid, its being afraid and doing it anyways. Gina Bianchini
Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting. Jacqueline Bisset
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. Estee Lauder
Successful women have an aura that says i belong in this seat. Cathie Black
You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are. Melissa Etheridge
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ash
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. Amy Poehler
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Lana Turner
Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you. Heidi Johnson
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. Roseanne Barr
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. Angelina Jolie
Everything, and I mean everything, is about strong, powerful women. Jesse Peyronel
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. Anais Nin
Success and like ability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less. Sheryl Sandberg
I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued. Susan Stroman
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
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. Charles F. Kettering
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. Marie Curie
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
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Herman Cain
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. Mother Theresa
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. Anne Sweeney
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. Diane Sawyer
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Oprah Winfrey
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel