Great Famous Quotes and Quotations by Famous Women

Usually when people search for quotes, they look for quotes by famous people recognized for their wisdom. Countless quotes are by famous men, so I thought why not create a list by famous women to show the pearls of wisdom coming out from some of the famous females of our world.

So add inspiration to your everyday life with some of these quotes. Put them up at your mirror or fridge, somewhere where you can see them easily, and be soothed by these words.

Meanwhile, let the words of these famous women bring a positive ring to your life!

Famous Quotes by Famous Women

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it's all the same .... day.
-- Janis Joplin

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong

Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul;
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.
-- Emily Dickinson

I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
-- Virginia Satir

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
-- Nikki Giovanni

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
-- Peace Pilgrim

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
-- Rachel Carson

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
-- Agnes Repplier

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

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
-- Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get â€” only what you are expecting to give â€” which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
-- Katharine Hepburn

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
-- Louisa May Alcott

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
-- Barbara Johnson< />

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? You are a child of God. 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. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. 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

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-- Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
-- Peace Pilgrim

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-- Ingrid Bergman

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
-- Jennifer Aniston

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
-- Barbara De Angelis

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
-- Maureen Dowd

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
-- Mary Stuart

The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
-- Emily Dickinson

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-- Anna Quindlen

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
-- Oprah Winfrey

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
-- Anne Frank

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

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
-- Julia Roberts

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
-- Barbara De Angelis

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