Here's a series of encouraging quotes by women to make you feel better about yourself, your aspirations and your dreams.


Let these practical advice and the common sense of these women pump up your enthusiasm level. Let yourself by encouraged by these wise women's advice, wisdom and kind words.

May you find strength, hope and beauty in these encouraging thoughts.

Enjoy these encouraging quotes!



Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
-- Margaret Cousins

Ask yourself, "what difference will this thing we're fighting about make in ten years? In one year? In a month?
-- Author Unknown

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
-- Liz Smith

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
-- Anne Frank

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

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
-- Diana Schart Hunt

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-- Helen Keller

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime.
-- Elisabethe Kubler-Ross

I can do no great things, only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
-- Judith M. Knowlton

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
-- Katherine Mansfield

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
-- Margaret Thatcher

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
-- Anita Rod****

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
-- Beverly Sills

Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
-- Caroline Dall

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
-- Liz Carpenter

It's beauty that captures your attention; but personality that captures your heart.
-- Anon

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
-- Lena Horne

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
-- Margaret Thatcher

Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.
-- Mary Eugenia Charles

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone should be.
-- Clementine Paddleford

No one else can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
-- Natasha Bedingfield

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
-- Ellen Glasgow

Of all things you wear, your expression is the most important.
-- Anon

So celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
-- Mia Hamm

The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.
-- Pam Brown

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
-- Martha Washington

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith

We won't always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What's important is that you do care and you act.
-- Charlotte Lunsford

Well-behaved women rarely make history.
-- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

When we have the courage to speak out - to break our silence - we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities to speak up and voice their views.
-- Sharon Schuster

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
-- Author Unknown

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
-- Diana Ross

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
-- Lydia M. Child

You must do the think you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can do it

Amish saying: The most beautiful thing you will ever wear is a smile.