Quotes About Empowerment

You can't be what you can't see.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

Don't give anyone the proxy for your conscience.

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass. Amen.

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

If a man is unmarried, he is called a bachelor. If a woman is unmarried, she is called a spinster or an old maid. What is it about an unmarried woman that poses such a threat to the patriarchal order? Mainly, it is that women are no one's property when we're unmarried. We're under no one's control, and neither are our children. There is no telling what we might do or say.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

Fear comes, but fear passes.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.

What's dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

The story doesn't begin with grown women being massacred in the workplace or in the press. It begins with innocent little girls who become convinced, for whatever reason, that the girl within them isn't good enough.