1. “Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.” – Sara Blakely
2. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
3. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt– Golda Meir
4. “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter
5. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir
6. ”Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jeminson
7. “Instinct won’t carry you through the entire journey. It’s what you do in the moments between inspiration.” – Cate Blanchett
8. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” – Caterina Fake
9. “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
10. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.“ – Estee Lauder
11. “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 Evans
12. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel
13. “Your career is like a garden. It can hold an assortment of life’s energy that yields a bounty for you. You do not need to grow just one thing in your garden. You do not need to do just one thing in your career.”
14. “Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.” – Sandra Day O’Connor
15. “Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.” – Marissa Meyer
16. “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
17. “There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention to the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.” – Indra K. Nooyi
18. “The [wo]man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Chinese Proverb
19. “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
20. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash
21. “Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash
22. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” – Martha Stewart
23. “Any women who understand the problems of running a home will be nearer to understand the problems of running a country.” – Margaret Thatcher
24. “Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.” – Helen Gurley Brown
25. “I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life.’” – Maya Angelou
26. “We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” – Marie Curie
27. “The way I look at – speaking as a woman – I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.” – Margaret Chan
28. “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
29. “A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.” – Marilyn Monroe
30. “Whatever you do, be different. If you’re different, you will stand out.” – Anita Roddick
31. “Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.” – Gloria Steinem
32. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not to be done.” – Marge Piercy