Quotes about Self-empowerment

The interesting thing about this work is that we don't really do anything for them. If we tried, I think, we would fail miserably. Instead we invite them to do something radically new for themselves

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

If we compete with ourselves and not with others, then it does not matter who is behind us or ahead of us; our goal is to become and achieve all we are capable of being and doing, and this becomes the measure of our satisfaction.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.