Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Coco Chanel Quotes

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Observation Perception Reality Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Acceptance Patience Practicality Realism Wisdom Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Joy Life Appreciation Positivity Vitality Youthfulness I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Aging Perseverance Responsibility Self-Improvement Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Empowerment Equality Gender Roles Self-Perception Strength Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Desire and Value Gender Dynamics Love and Attraction Relationships Societal Roles I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Fashion Identity Self-Expression Style Timelessness Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Age Gender Perception Society A woman has the age she deserves.

Fashion Joy Self-Perception Time Women Empowerment Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Balance Love Monotony Time Work There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Endurance Love Patience Relationships Strength Great loves too must be endured.

Boredom Courage Detachment Emotional Response Passion Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Elegance Refusal Elegance is refusal.

Human Nature Humor Wisdom As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Boredom Escape Freedom Identity Ownership As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Emotional Support Gender Roles Motherhood Resilience Strength Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Betrayal Friendship Isolation Loneliness Trust My friends, there are no friends.

Beauty Confidence Perception Self-Expression Society A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Change Optimism Perspective Self-Empowerment I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Luxury Perception Poverty Refinement Vulgarity Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Courage Expression Freedom of Thought Independence Self-Confidence The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Comparison Creativity Rarity Resilience Strength Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Confidence Elegance Empowerment Fashion Self-Expression A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Perception Society Wealth There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Aesthetics Art Creativity Design Proportions Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Awareness Cognition Memory Mindfulness Perception Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Companionship Death Emotional Struggle Guilt Pain Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Comfort Elegance Indulgence Luxury Quality Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Confidence Individuality Innovation Self-Expression Uniqueness In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Brand Identity Elegance Fashion Heritage Luxury There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!