Women are known to have better intuition, patience, emotional focus, compassion and networking ability. The list of female strengths is endless.I’m sure you heard in the news that it was “International Women’s Day” on Wednesday (8th March).
Strong women have turned up, broken many stereotypes, and impacted all of us in the corporate world. And to celebrate their brilliant thoughts and successes, I’ve compiled a collection of 50 Leadership quotes by women whose words will inspire us to hustle a little harder, speak a little louder, and dream bigger.
From leading nations, to standing up for human rights, to running the world’s most important organisations, women continue to shape the world through their leadership.
To celebrate their incredible minds and contributions, I’ve put together a list of Best 50 Leadership Quotes By Women whose words encourage me to push a little harder, speak up a little louder, and swap doing for dreaming. I hope they do the same for you.
1. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have
Padmasree Warrior
2. Restore connection’ is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead
Arianna Huffington
3. You are never too small to make a difference.
Greta Thunberg
4. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey
5. I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.
Ginni Rometty
6. Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
7. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
Sheryl Sandberg
8. Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
Mary D. Poole
9. I decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
Serena Williams
10. Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
Margaret Wheatley
11. I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.
Nicki Minaj
12. We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
Beyoncé
13. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
14. Restore connection’ is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead.
Arianna Huffington
15. Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
Margaret Wheatley
16. My best successes came on the heels of failures.
Barbara Corcoran
17. Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
Assata Shakur
18. Strategic leaders must not get consumed by the operational and tactical side of their work.
Stephanie S. Mead
19. 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
20. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
Padmasree Warrior
21. Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
Wilma Mankiller
22. If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Dolly Parton
23. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
24. Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Harriet Tubman
25. Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
Katherine Johnson
26. My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
27. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination.
Betty Friedan,
28. 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
27. Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.
Marie Curie
28. Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
29. I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
Serena Williams
30. Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light
Frida Kahlo
31. Live your life in such a way that you’ll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
Germany Kent
32. Love, compassion, care, listening, communicating—these aren’t secondary skills. They’re of primary importance.
Victoria Montgomery Brown
33. Leadership is not about command and control: that’s for the army.
Victoria Montgomery Brown
34. Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart, but it’s satisfying as hell.
Victoria Montgomery Brown
35. Transparency is always necessary, even when it may cost you everything you’ve built.
Victoria Montgomery Brown
36. You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham Young
37. 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
38. 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
39. It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.
Taylor Swift
40. Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.
Jennifer Lopez
41. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
42. We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.
Malala Yousafzai
43. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
Dianne Feinstein,
44. I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay
Madonna
45. Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyoncé
46. Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria
47. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
48. Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
Katharine Whitehorn
49. I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
Maya Angelou
50. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg
51. “We may encounter many defeats, but we may not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
52. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Muriel Strode
53. “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
54. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
Marianne Williamson
55. “Who you are surrounded by often determines who you become.”
Vicky Saunders
56. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”
Dianne Feinstein
57. “Give light and people will find the way.”
Ella Baker
58. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
Audre Lorde
59. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”
Anne Sweeney
60. “The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while, you become it and it’s easy.”
Ursula Burns
61. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
Billie Jean King
62. “My best successes came on the heels of failures.”
Barbara Corcoran
63. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.”
Margaret Wheatley
64. “I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.”
Nicki Minaj
65. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
Iyanla Vanzant
66. “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Marie Curie
67. “We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.”
Beyoncé
68. “I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.”
Marie Curie
69. “She was a wild one; always stomping on eggshells that everyone else tip-toed on.”
Kaitlin Foster
70. “She was a storm, not the kind you run from, but the kind you chase.”
R.H. Sin
71. “She was chaos and beauty intertwined. A tornado of roses from divine.”
Shakieb Orgunwall
72. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.”
Lalah Delia
73. “A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.”
Gina Carey
74. “She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible.”
Ariana Dancu
75. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
Mother Teresa
76. “The important thing is to always ask the world to do some things. But sometimes they cannot be done, so you have to take a stab, and you have to do them.”
Malala Yousafzai
77. “Never apologize for being a powerful woman.”
Unknown
78. “The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved, women who live bravely, both tender and fierce, women of indomitable will.”
Amy Tenney
79. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.”
Maya Angelou
80. “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”
Diane Mariechild
81. “I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.”
Calamity Jane
82. “Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.”
Marissa Meyer
83. “Your job as leader is to stay as close in touch as possible with those closest to the action.”
Kat Cole
84. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
Ginni Rometty
85. “The only real negative that can happen when you fail is if you haven’t learnt from it.”
Maile Carnegie
86. “Do something you love.”
Lisa Sugar
87. “Feminism is superlative degree of empathy, love, affection and caring! A special creation by the master craftsman (God).”
Invajy
88. “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.”
Madonna
89. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
Maya Angelou
90. “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”
Diane Mariechild
91. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand
92. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
Alice Walker
93. “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Drew Barrymore
94. “Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path.”
Katherine Wolf
95. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
Billie Jean King
96. “I don’t want to be better than you or her or him – I want to be better than I am right now.”
Kerri Walsh
97. “I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone.”
Tory Burch
98. “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
Irina Dunn
99. “I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
100. “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
Malala Yousafzai
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