Good Quotes by Women

A good quote speaks volume be it inspirational or encouraging words. When one is down in spirits, sometimes what we need to bounce our spirits back up a little is a warm, encouraging thought to permeate our soul...

If you're seeking for words of encouragement by inspiring women, let this series of inspirational quotes bring you some delight.

Enjoy these great quotes as you would savor heart-melting chocolates, in bite-sizes.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
-- Isabelle Holland, The Long Search

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
-- Marilyn Mach Vos Savant

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
-- Carolyn Coats

Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have.
-- Anon

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and your reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
-- Belva Davis

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
-- Isak Dinese

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.
-- Danielle Fotopoulis

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
-- Anon

Everyone has the power to make someone happy - Some by simply entering a room, some by quietly leaving it.
-- Author Unknown

Expect to have hope rekindled.
Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.
The dry seasons in life do not last.
The spring rains will come again.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Experience is a hard teacher... it tests first and teaches after.
-- Anon

Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
-- Oprah Winfrey

Faith is like radar that sees in the fog - the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
-- Corrie ten Boom

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
-- Margaret Lee Runbeck

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.
-- Paula Giddings

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
-- Diane Ackerman

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.
-- Gilda Radner

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
-- Jenny Craig

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
-- Karen Clark Kaiser

Limited expectations yield only limited results.
-- Susan Laurson Willig

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
-- Betty Smith

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
-- Marianne Williamson

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
-- Hannah Senesh

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.
-- Ann Landers

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
-- Marian Wright Edelman

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
-- Beatrix Potter

The fragrance always stay in the hand that gives the rose.
-- Hada Bejar

The price of giving up is always wondering what could have been.
-- Anon

To love what you do and feel that it matters... how could anything be more fun?
-- Katherine Graham

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
-- Eva Young

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
-- Henry David Thoreau

When work, commitment and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.
-- Nancy Coey

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
-- Isak Dinese

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now.
-- Joan Baez

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals and you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
-- Rosalynn Carter

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
-- Ethel Barrymore

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