25 Inspirational Career Quotes From Women Who Made A Difference

Inspirational Career Quotes from successful and accomplished women across various industries. These women have broken barriers, challenged norms, and left their mark in their respective fields, serving as role models for generations.

Their wisdom offers insights and guidance to anyone seeking a fulfilling and successful career. From the importance of hard work and determination to embracing failure and taking risks, these quotes provide inspiration and motivation to help you pursue your dreams and achieve your goals.

Are you feeling lost or down about your career? Do you need an extra boost of motivation? we hope these quotes will inspire and empower you to take charge of your career and make a difference in your chosen field.

Inspirational Career Quotes From Women

#1 “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want”
( Anna Wintour )

#2 “Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.”
Margaret Cho

#3 ” It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
J.K. Rowling

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#4 ” Be stubborn and thick-skinned. Because I think even if you’re passionate, and even if you’re really good at what you do, I think you are likely to be subject to preconceived notions of who can do what.”
Anab Jain

#5 ” Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you’re paralyzed because you have no idea what your passion is. The truth is, it doesn’t matter. You don’t have to know, you just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new.”
Shonda Rhimes

#6 ” There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ”
Jane Austen

#7 “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
Mae West

#8 ” Women need to shift from thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.”
Sheryl Sandberg

#9 “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey

#10 ” 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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along ”
Eleanor Roosevelt

#11 “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
Estée Lauder

#12 “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
Maya Angelou

#13 ” We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
Arianna Huffington

#14 ” Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
Gloria Steinem

#15 ” I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.”
Marissa Mayer

#16 ” You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but by how you survive.”
Sheryl Sandberg

#17 ” Stay true to yourself and your vision. Don’t let any one person’s opinion move you; listen, but be confident.”
Amanda Kahlow

#18 ” Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.”
Ava DuVernay

#19 ” 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

#20 ” I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
Malala Yousafzai

#21 ” Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.”
Julia Child

#22 ” If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in.”
Reese Witherspoon

#23 ” There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
Jane Austen

#24 ” You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”
Michelle Obama

#25 ” When one door closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller