--- title: World's Most Successful Women Share Their Personal Mottos description: "There's only now" canonical: https://time.com/4205045/successful-women-personal-motto/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-03T05:09:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:01:47.186Z og:title: Some of the World's Most Successful Women Share Their Personal Mottos og:description: "There's only now" og:url: https://time.com/4205045/successful-women-personal-motto/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1155afff57d98bf2/69887be0bc6cfccfa83db8fc/deborah-borg-successful-women-motto.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: deborah-borg-successful-women-motto og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Some of the World's Most Successful Women Share Their Personal Mottos twitter:description: "There's only now" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1155afff57d98bf2/69887be0bc6cfccfa83db8fc/deborah-borg-successful-women-motto.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The World's Most Successful Women Share Their Personal Mottos by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 3, 2016 5:09 AM UTC  by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 3, 2016 5:09 AM UTC A good motto gives you words to live by. Some of the world’s most successful women use theirs to get a sense of clarity. These women touch on all of the important aspects of living well, whether it’s improving the lives of others or remembering to have fun. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4205045/successful-women-personal-motto/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4205045/successful-women-personal-motto/"},"headline":"The World's Most Successful Women Share Their Personal Mottos","datePublished":"2016-02-03T05:09:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:01:47.186Z","description":"'There's only now'","url":"https://time.com/4205045/successful-women-personal-motto/","keywords":["motto","advice","Quotes"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1155afff57d98bf2/69887be0bc6cfccfa83db8fc/deborah-borg-successful-women-motto.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1155afff57d98bf2/69887be0bc6cfccfa83db8fc/deborah-borg-successful-women-motto.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"deborah-borg-successful-women-motto","caption":"deborah-borg-successful-women-motto","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4205045/successful-women-personal-motto/","name":"The World's Most Successful Women Share Their Personal Mottos"}}]}] ```