As we celebrate Women's History Month, we are sharing (a lot of) special quotes from well-known women of the past and present. Hoping, you may find a few that inspire you, also. See below: 

• "The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
• "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
• "You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness." - Diane von Furstenberg
• "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel
• "Power's not given to you. You have to take it." - Beyoncé Knowles Carter
• "I was smart enough to go through any door that opened." - Joan Rivers
• "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform." - Susan B. Anthony
• "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." - Malala Yousafzai
• "Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." - Golda Meir
• "Knowing what must be done does away with fear." - Rosa Parks
• "I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it." - Estée Lauder
• "The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves." - Barbara Corcoran
• "Nothing is impossible; the word itself says it: I'm possible." - Audrey Hepburn 
• "At a certain age, it's someone else's time. You might as well do more of the things you love, less of the things you hate." - Jodie Foster
• "I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need."  - Jennifer Grey
• “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." - Shonda Rhimes
• "I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself." - Emma Stone 
• "I do not mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it." - Marilyn Monroe 
• "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
• "I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can." - Dilma Rousseff
• "Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins." - Edith Wharton
• "If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong
• "Women don't need to find their voices; they need to be empowered to use it, and people need to be urged to listen." - Meghan Markle 
• "I have stood on a mountain of nos for one yes." - B. Smith
• "Be yourself always, there's no one better!" - Selena Gomez
• "Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
• "The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice." - Peggy O'Mara
• "I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside." - Donna Summer
• "You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe." - Leymah Gbowee
• "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." - Dolly Parton
• "If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities." - Ann Richards
• "I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants." - Whitney Houston 
• "You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else." - Chris Evert
• "I love being a woman, and I cherish all the women in my life who bring me laughter, wisdom, and comfort that make my life richer." - Cindy Crawford 
• "No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth." - Martha Beck
• "I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges." - Farrah Fawcett
• "Nobody has a perfect anything. We don't have perfect lives. We're not perfect beings." - Gladys Knight
• "Done is better than perfect." - Sheryl Sandberg
• "One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning." - Ruth Reichl
• "Be first and be lonely." - Ginni Rometty
• "One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism." - Eva Perón
• "Look your best - who said love is blind?" - Mae West
• "It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent." - Madeleine Albright
• "Don't take too much credit for your children -- or too much blame!" - Debora Spar
• "You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea." - Benazir Bhutto
• "Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create." - Oprah Winfrey
• "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall
• "Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window or break down a door." - Brooke Shields
• "I firmly believe you should never spend your time being the former anything." - Condoleezza Rice
• "I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time." - Jennie Finch
• "A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution." - Angela Merkel
• "A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done." - Marge Piercy
• "Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down." - Jennifer Garner
• "Spend less time tearing yourself apart, worrying if you're good enough. You are good enough." - Reese Witherspoon
• "I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life." - Louise Hay
• "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
• "If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier." - Lori Greiner
• "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
• "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa
• "Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you." - Hillary Clinton
• “We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone.” - Jennifer Anniston 
• "When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak." - Audre Lorde
• "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." - Nora Ephron
• "You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail." - Lisa Ling
• "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself to forgive. Forgive everybody." - Maya Angelou
• "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
• "If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances." - Sallie Krawcheck
• "A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence." - Sonia Sotomayor
• "Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for." - Jennifer Lopez
• "You can be the lead in your own life." - Kerry Washington
• "When you feel copied, remember that people can only go where you have already been; they have no idea where you are going next." - Liz Lange
• “I think once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.” - Diane Sawyer
• "You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you." - Katie Couric
• "No one changes the world who isn't obsessed." - Billie Jean King
• "Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down." - Tory Johnson*
• "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." - Audrey Hepburn
• "Normal is not something to aspire to; it's something to get away from." - Jodie Foster
• "I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• "I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger." - Mia Hamm
• "When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it." - Madonna
• "Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it." - Brene Brown
• "I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." - Arianna Huffington
• "I'm always perpetually out of my comfort zone." - Tory Burch
• "If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner." - Cher
• "If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is." - Angelina Jolie
• "Everyone shines, given the right lighting." - Susan Cain
• "If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably." - Rachel Maddow
• "When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that's when you start to shine." - Bethenny Frankel
• "You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute." - Tina Fey
• "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
• "The challenge is not to be perfect...it's to be whole." - Jane Fonda
• "Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance." - Anne Lamott
• "There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
• "All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time." - Julie Andrews
• "If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go." - Sara Blakely
• "This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues." - Diana Nyad
• "You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't." - Annie Leibovitz
• "If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." - Princess Diana
• "We do not need magic to change the world; we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better." - J.K. Rowling
• "When you're through changing, you're through." - Martha Stewart
• "We need to start work with the idea that we're going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day." - Chanda Kochhar
• "Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you, and inspire you." -Taylor Swift
• "Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you're really a yawn if it goes." - Bette Midler
• "Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak." - Rachel Zoe
• "Dying seems less sad than having lived too little." - Gloria Steinem
• "When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone." - Melissa McCarthy
• "Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful." - Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
• "Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people." - Diane Sawyer
• "I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said." - Thuli Madonsela
• "I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it." - Hoda Kotb
• "It's not the absence of fear; it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith." - Emma Watson
• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anaïs Nin
• "I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion." - Ellen DeGeneres
• "When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'" - Jada Pinkett Smith
• "Don't live life in the past lane." - Samantha Ettus
• "Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it." - Harper Lee