Quotes About Empowerment

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Vulnerable. It wasn't a word she liked the sound of. It was a weak word. A needy word. And she didn't want to need anyone.

Always, there must be free will. It is not for us to impose our beliefs on others or to endeavor to persuade one to the practices of our faith. We do not seek those who need our help. Rather, they must seek us and request our assistance. —Esmée Roussel, the Dress Witch" Davis, Barbara. The Keeper of Happy Endings

playing small as they say nowadays, afraid of making others uncomfortable.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." — Epictetus

First rule of self-defense is: Don't ask your attacker for validation.

First rule of self-defense is: Don't ask your attacker for validation. Never apologize for sticking up for yourself.

From heartache came strength, from strength, satisfaction.

Loving herself—respecting her own needs—was something important and new.

Accept what you can't change by changing what you can't accept. My father may have died nearly in front of my daughter's nose, but I won't have her thinking the timing was all bad. I can change the narrative. Can't I?

People don't cry because they're weak. They cry because they've been strong for too long.

Men weren't always a solution. There were times when they made things worse.

Confidence could be applied like makeup. I knew that for fact.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.

This is your space to do with as you please, a playground where you can create the game with all its rules without compromise—one of the perks of living alone.

Let go of the idea that someone else can make your life wonderful. Your happiness is in your own hands; that's the safest place for it.

ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR BANISHING NEGATIVE THOUGHTS.

Don't depend on a partner for your self-esteem. Never give away your value to someone else.