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You’ll find in this collection inspirational happy womens day quotes of great women achievers compiled to celebrate the International Women’s Day. Women are special beings. They nourish and nurture people, and places to become who and what they are. They are beautiful in and out. So much more, they are committed to do what they made up their minds to do. Celebrating them is worthwhile. Joining to celebrate women achievement at the #IWD and campaign toward having an enabled world. These quotes are meant to praise, inspire, and uplift women in their various endeavours. Enjoy! Inspirational Happy Womens Day Quotes A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t. Rhonda Hansome A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery. Diana Sturm A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Gloria Steinem A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. Melinda Gates A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. Diane Mariechild A woman is like a tea bag – you never how strong she is until she gets in hot water Eleanor Roosevelt A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts. Nancy Rathburn A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Chauncey Mitchell Depew Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. Anne Morrow Lindberg By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation-less class. Anne Morrow Lindberg Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed. Christine Lagarde Happy Women’s Day Messages Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes. Clare Boothe Luc Beauty is ideas – the ideas of what we can do with the vast wilderness by mining it. Gina Rinehart Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down to make a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. Phylicia Rashad As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Ask yourself whose voice are you listening to? What you see in me is the result of prayer and hard work and obedience to the voice of God. Folorunso Alakija I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Disconnecting from our technology to reconnect with ourselves is absolutely essential for wisdom. Arianna Huffington Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want? Sigmund Freud Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development. Angela Merkel Beauty is an iron mine. Gina Rinehart Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are. Ellen Degeneres Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. Rudyard Kipling A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen Inspirational Women's Day Messages A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. Coco Chanel A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. Margaret Sanger A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself. Loretta Young A baby is a very private thing. Gina Rinehart I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us. Louisa May Alcott I am not the first woman to multi-task. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby — there are many women who have done this before. Jacinda Ardern I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. Mother Teresa How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. Anais Nin Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met Farrah Fawcett God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you. - Mrs Patrick Campbell Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world. Marilyn Monroe Find something you’re passionate about and stay tremendously interested in it. Julia Child Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues. Charlotte Bunch Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success. Arianna Huffington Extremists have shown what frighten them most: a girl with a book Malala Yousafzai Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. Audrey Hepburn Educating oyoung girls is the foundation for Nigerians growth and development. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. Queen Elizabeth II Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Just start small with what you have and you can grow the business. Folorunso Alakija It’s much, much better to talk to one another than about one another. Angela Merkel It’s essential to draw up a “things to do” list on a daily basis and set priorities in executing them, making sure that any unfinished task get posted to the next day’s list. Folorunso Alakija It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. Arianna Huffington It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult. Queen Elizabeth II Powerful Women Words Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change. Hillary Clinton In a perfect world, all of a woman’s issues could be fixed with WD-40 and duct tape. Jason Love If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who, from an early age, knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. Oprah Winfrey 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 If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa If Europe fails on the question of refugees, then it won’t be the Europe we wished for. If we now have to start apologizing for showing a friendly face in response to emergency situations, then that’s not my country. We will cope. Angela Merkel I’m not ashamed of being a girl, and since I’m a girl I will do what a boy would have done had I been a boy. Gina Rinehart I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving. Christine Lagarde I married beneath me – all women do. Nancy Astor I once dared to dream and if I could succeed, then so can you! Folorunso Alakija I take my share of the responsibility that lies with me as party chairwoman and chancellor. Angela Merkel I think a girl can do anything! She just needs to believe in herself. Elvira Meliksetyan I think the key is for women not to set any limits Martina Navratilova READ ALSO: Inspirational Messages and Quotes for Women’s Day Great Inspirational For Women for all Seasons I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. Margaret Mead I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. Marilyn Monroe I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness. Sofia Vergara I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. Christine Lagarde I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service as so many of you are pledged to mine. Queen Elizabeth II I have never let gender get in my way. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw I have to be seen to be believed. Queen Elizabeth II I thought I could stay out of it. Then people turned their interest toward me and I found I was continually with adults, so I had to mature very quickly. Gina Rinehart I want us to be a secure, prosperous, tolerant country–a magnet for international talent and a home to the pioneers and innovators who will shape the world ahead. Angela Merkel Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuild my life. K. Rowling Rob yourself of sleep and you’ll find you do not function at your personal best. Arianna Huffington Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us. Christabel Pankhurst People should not just look at people who are on top. They should go and study how they got there and the challenges they had to face as they while climbing the ladder. Folorunso Alakija Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Oprah Winfrey Ours is a generation bloated with information and starved for wisdom. Arianna Huffington One is not born a woman, one becomes one. Simone de Beauvoir Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. Eleanor Roosevelt Never make decisions from a place of lack. Arianna Huffington Never dull your shine for somebody else. Tyra Banks Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. Marlene Dietrich Motivational Women's Day Quotes Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet. Brendan Francis Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. Alfred Lord Tennyson Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world Lucille Ball Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. Charlotte Whitton What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don’t have, is just love what we do have. Cameron Diaz What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw We will continue to invest in game changers. Mary Barra We want a more prosperous, more just, more equal, more inclusive future. I shall keep my word. I shall tell you what I think and I shall do what I say. I give you my word as a woman. Michelle Bachelet We think mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of the time we put in at work, instead of the quality of the time we put in. Arianna Huffington We need to let negotiations continue and be completed. Mary Barra Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success. Arianna Huffington Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. Michelle Obama We didn’t want the publicity until we were sure everything was all right. Gina Rinehart We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Oprah Winfrey Positive Quotes For Women We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people. Christine Lagarde We are responsible for each other. I am trying to convince doubters. There is still work to do. Angela Merkel We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock. Queen Elizabeth II Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle but a kind which makes us stand up for everything we know it right. Queen Elizabeth II To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending… when women do better, economies do better. Christine Lagarde Success is commonly defined as money and power, but increasingly that’s not enough. It’s almost like a two-legged stool where you fall over if that’s all you measure your life by. Arianna Huffington Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry Gloria Steinem I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up. Jenette Stanley You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman. Tyra Bank You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work. Melinda Gates Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That’s the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over anticipate. I think it’s the case with many women leaders. We tend to overdo it. Christine Lagarde Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Marilyn Monroe Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. Daphne du Maurier Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world. Melinda Gates Success Quotes for Women Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. Hillary Clinton Women are leaders everywhere you look -- from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes Nancy Pelosi Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity. Mahatma Gandhi Will we be able to continue working well together or will we all fall back into our individual roles? I call on us, and I hope we will find a common position on this, let’s make the world better together and then things will get better for every single one of us. Angela Merkel Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse. Golda Meir When women do better, economies do better. Christine Lagarde When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else. Melinda Gates When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out. Anita Roddick They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. Oliver Goldsmith There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. Albert Ellis There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnerships between the public and private sectors can make a big difference. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. Roseanne Barr Uplifting Quotes for Women The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. Maya Angelou The history of all times and of today especially, teaches that women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves Louise Otto The happiest people are the most giving. Arianna Huffington The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have. Christine Lagarde Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve. Melinda Gates Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. Cornelia Otis Skinner Women are the real architects of society. Harriet Beecher Stowe Thanks for visiting. Do feel free to visit our other pages and don’t forget to like and share. Xoxo.