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This International Women’s Day, we’re raising a toast to all the amazing women who nurtured us, inspired us, and helped us become the people we are today. Be further motivated to conquer your goals with these quotes from 20 women we love.

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai, education activist and 2014 Nobel Peace Prize awardee

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart, author and aviation pioneer

“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, former senator and secretary of state of the USA

“My mother always said, íf you really want something, you’re going to have to work hard, you’ll have to take advantage of every opportunity, but don’t give up.’ I’ve taken that message to young people…all around the world.”- Jane Goodall, primate conservationist and anthropologist

“I encourage women to step up. Don’t wait for somebody to ask you.” – Reese Witherspoon, actress, producer, and entrepreneur

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and activist

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”- Oprah Winfrey, author, talk show host, actress, and media executive

“It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.” – Queen Elizabeth II

“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling, author

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another.” – Serena Williams, tennis champion and 8-time world no. 1

“I just love bossy women…It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.” – Amy Poehler, actress, comedian, writer, and director

“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.” – Isabel Allende, author

“We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.”- Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO

“Women will be hidden no more. We will not remain hidden figures. We have names. … It was a woman that gave you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a woman that gave you Malcolm X. And according to the Bible, it was a woman that gave you Jesus. Don’t you ever forget it.”- Janelle Monae, singer-songwriter

“The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your fear.” – Nadia Comaneci, 5-time Olympic gold medalist and the first gymnast in Olympic history to get a perfect score of 10

“ Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.” – Candace Bushnell, author

“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.” – Dolly Parton, actress and musician

“Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live.” – Yuna Kim, two-time world figure skating champion and Olympic gold medalist

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou, poet, singer, and civil rights activist

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Marianne is Nixplay’s Web Content Editor. Her hobbies include exploring new places, playing table tennis, and cuddling puppies. Send her a message at marianne.salazar@nixplay.com.

Mothers are some of the strongest, wisest, kindest, and toughest people in the world. Their seemingly endless ability to nurture, nourish and love makes them superhuman, and we don’t know what we’d do without them.

As the U.K. celebrates Mother’s Day this March 31, let’s take a moment to honor our mums with these inspiring quotes.

“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” – Mitch Albom

“It’s a funny thing about mothers…Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” – Roald Dahl

“My mom is the No. 1 person who has taught me to be courteous towards women, to always be respectful and polite to them, and to always lead with your heart.” – Zac Efron

“The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.” – Louisa May Alcott

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” – Maya Angelou

“My mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.” – Lupita Nyong’o

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” – Amy Tan

“My mother…she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” – Jodi Picoult

“Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together. Your fundamental identity changes overnight.” – Kate Middleton

“You never again have a day where you don’t think of your kids first…like, ‘How are the kids doing? What do they need?’ That’s my first thought when I wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night. I’m always thinking of them.” – Zooey Deschanel

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Mars Salazar

Marianne is Nixplay’s Web Content Editor. Her hobbies include exploring new places, playing table tennis, and cuddling puppies. Send her a message at marianne.salazar@nixplay.com.

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