Women Leadership Quotes

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.

You just do it one step at a time.

The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

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.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.

We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

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.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

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.

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.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.