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Life Celebration Quotes

500 Quotes from Famous Women

Inspiration / Motivation

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Agatha Christie
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly 
that just to be alive is a grand thing.

 

 

Decide … whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.    
 

 


The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.    
Amelia Earhart

If you can dance and be free and not be embarrassed, you can rule the world.    
Amy Poehler


If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.
Beverly Cleary


Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett


The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!    
Dolly Parton


I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt


None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.   
Elizabeth Blackwell


If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf


What sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden, and it’s not. And a lot of the time, it’s what makes you great.    
Emma Stone


If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut and if you extend your hand to help another — not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity — you are going to find the truth.    
Erin Brockovich

Frida Kahlo

You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the

only thing that really counts.                         

 

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.          
Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

Harriet Tubman

 

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

 

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Jane Fonda

Jane Goodall

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
 

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Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is most important.           
Junko Tabei

 

You never have to ask anyone permission to lead. When you want to lead, you lead.        

 

 

You’re going to walk into many rooms where you may be the only one who looks like you or who has had the experiences you’ve had. So you use that voice and be strong.         
Kamala Harris

To love what you do and feel like it matters — how could anything be more fun? 
Katharine Graham

 

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield 

 

Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path.

Katherine Wolf

Whatever it is that you think you want to do, and whatever it is that you think stands between you and that, stop making excuses. You can do anything.         
Katia Beauchamp

 

You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person’. It makes you human.

Lori Deschne

 

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I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
Louise Hay

 

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
Lucille Ball

 

I was taught to strive, not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
Madeleine Albright

Maya Angelou
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.     

 


Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. 

 

If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.    

 


If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.    

 


You never have to ask anyone permission to lead. When you want to lead, you lead.    

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.    
Meg Whitman


I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa


Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.    
Nikita Gill


Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron


The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.    
Oprah Winfrey


All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.    
Pema Chödrön

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


Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.    
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

 

With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.


I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.    
Serena Williams

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.    
Shirley Chisholm


You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.    
Shonda Rhimes


You have to make your own luck. You make it in practice and with training and conditioning.    
Simone Biles

 

​Simone de Beauvoir
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay​.

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