100 Uplifting Quotes for Women on Strength and Leadership – Inspirational Words of Wisdom

Motivational Quotes for Women strength and leadership that are uplifting for women. To run the world’s most important organizations, women continue to shape the world through their leadership.

Uplifting Quotes for Women

1. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou

2. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer (Co-Founder, Lumi Labs)

3. “You have to look at your career and personal life at the big-picture level: it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Doing that helps me feel OK during the weeks when one part of my life overwhelms the other.” – Joanna Horsnail (Partner, Mayer Brown LLP)

4. “Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” – Lady Gaga

5. “Women lead in different ways. Women rarely feel the need to speak the most at a meeting to make their point.”—Patricia Bellinger

6. “Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”—Tina Fey

7. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”—Mary D. Poole

8. “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

9. “You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect.” – Rosalind Brewer (COO & Group President of Starbucks)

10. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” – Sheryl Sandberg (COO, Facebook)

11. “I’ve always subscribed to the belief that the best leader is not one who has the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders. I strive every day — and in every program and offering we have at Integrous Women — to create more conscious, confident, and soulful leaders who, in return, will build a better world for all.” – Stephanie Courtillier (Founder, Integrous Women)

12. “Our emerging workforce is not interested in command and control leadership. They don’t want to do things because I said so, they want to do things because they want to do them.”—Irene Rosenfield

13. “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

14. “Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.” – Joanne Ciulla (Author and Educator)

15. “Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is.” — Anne Frank

16. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”—Margaret Mead

17. “My father had a simple test that helps me measure my own leadership quotient: When you are out of the office, he once asked me, does your staff carry on remarkable well without you?”—Martha Peak

18. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” – Hillary Clinton (American Politician)

19. “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.”—Himanshu Bhatia

20. “Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?”—Margaret Thatcher