Quotes About Empowerment

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

Build therefore your own world.

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

The World exists for you ; Build therefore your own world

He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will...