Quotes to Inspire Female Entrepreneurs

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Being an entrepreneur can be an amazing adventure; similar to a roller coaster ride. You’ll have days where nothing seems to go your way and other days where everything from your client relationships to your bank account and your family relationships goes exceptionally well. I’m sure you can relate. It’s easy to stay motivated and on track when all things are in alignment and you feel a sense of fulfillment. But what about those days when you find it hard to be productive, creative and motivated to continue moving forward.

Quotes from other successful entrepreneurs are a very useful tool to reference and aid keeping you motivated, and can be a great reminder that others have gone through the same things we may be experiencing. Inspirational quotes can bring creativity and motivation to keep you on track as a successful entrepreneur.

Check out some of my personal favorite quotes from some very successful women that inspire and motivate me, and please be sure to add your favorites in the comments section below.

• “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, author and poet
• “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” ~Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx
  
• “I became successful due to several reasons. I never gave up and I never let anyone or anything get in my way. I use the power of positive thinking to tackle obstacles and challenges so they don’t defeat me.” ~Lillian Vernon, founder Lillian Vernon Corporation
• “Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” ~Julie Andrews, actress, singer, author
• “Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.” ~Edna Ferber, author and playwright
• “Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.” ~Cher, recording artist, Emmy Award–winning television personality, award-winning actress, director, record producer and philanthropist
• “Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently.”  ~Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx
• “I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.” ~Rita Mae Brown, author and screenwriter
• “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, founder of The Body Shop
• “There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.” ~Madam C.J. Walker, Walker Cosmetics line
• “A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” ~Melinda Gates, philanthropist, co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• “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, founder Mary Kay Cosmetics
• “If you are committed to creating value and if you aren’t afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps; but with no real power. The world respects creation; people will get out of your way.” ~Candice Carpenter, founder of iVillage.com
• “Successful people understand that you don’t need to make things complicated.” ~Anne McKevitt, entrepreneur, TV personality, author and philanthropist
• “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” ~Ella Fitzgerald, jazz and song vocalist
• “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady
• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? […] Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. […] It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~Marianne Williamson, spiritual activist, author, lecturer and founder of The Peace Alliance
• “Be thankful for what you have, you will end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never ever have enough.” ~Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
  
• “I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.” ~Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul
• “Don’t solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you’re just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning. ” ~Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx
  
• “I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.” ~Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul
• “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” ~Barbara De Angelis, relationship consultant, speaker and author, TV personality
• “Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozey, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.” ~Billie Jean King, former professional tennis player
• “Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson – from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.” ~Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx
  
• “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer
• “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~Anais Nin, author
• “What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn’t it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?” ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, author
• “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” ~Madonna, recording artist, actress, and entrepreneur
• “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” ~Gilda Radner
• “What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference not only in your own life but in other people’s lives.” ~Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
• “Breathe, let go and remind yourself that this very moment is the one you know you have for sure.” ~Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
• “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” ~Margaret Fuller, journalist, critic, and women’s rights advocate
• “There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.” ~Phyllis Bottome, novelist and short story writer
• “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.” ~Marie Beyon Ray, author
• “Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.” ~Debbie Ford, author, speaker, and founder of the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching
• “My will shall shape the future.  Whether I fail or succeed shall be no one’s doing but my own.  I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice. My responsibility.  Win or lose; only I hold the key to my destiny.” ~Elaine Maxwell, Author
• “My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” ~Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
• “We all start not knowing what to do.” ~Anne McKevitt, entrepreneur, TV personality, author and philanthropist