Quotes About Empowerment

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ? Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.

Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

With the new day comes new strength.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent

She never told me anything, but she allowed me to read anything I wanted in the library, which held a great many books.

Nadie puede hacer que te sientas inferior sin tu consentimiento