#2 Hearts are flowers

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, 
even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers;
 that remain open to the softly falling dew, 
but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

-- John Paul Richter

#1 Top 20 Motivational Quotes For Women

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. -Maya Angelou

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

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. - Steffi Graf

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens ? a terrible thing, no one to blame. -Erica Jong

#8 Top 10 Motivational Quotes for Women

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences -J.K.Rowling

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the firseside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. -Eleanor Roosevelt

The day will come when men will recognize women as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.  -Susan B. Anthony

#7 The best of Motivational Quotes for Women

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that his thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. -Marie Curie

Success breeds confidence.  -Beryl Markham

Because i am a woman, i must make unsual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She does not have what it takes. They will say, Women do not have what it takes. -Clare Boothe Luce

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world.  -Arlene Rankin

#6 A Good Objective of Leadership is

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well do even better.  

-Jim Rohn