Quotes About Empowerment

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers-you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you want to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top.

The gods help those who help themselves.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

For they can conquer who believe they can.