Quotes About Empowerment

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He

We are built up or brought down by ourselves. Within your mind you can build a fortress of joy, strength, and peace; or you can forge the weapons of thought that will bring about your own destruction.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself

man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

They themselves are makers of themselves. by

Ellos mismos son fabricantes de sí mismos

Therefore, pursue your course bravely. Your conscience is at least your own, and to follow it is to be a man; to follow the conscience of another is to be a slave.

As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless that weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say

If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.

One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle.

When you say yes to something you don't want to do, here is the result: you hate what you are doing, you resent the person who asked you, and you hurt yourself.

There is nobody you need to impress. There is nobody who is judging you. And there will be nobody who can stop you.

If you don't choose yourself, someone else will and the result won't be pleasant.

symbolically, nobody can deliver wisdom to you except you. The being who finds peace inside himself needs nobody to tell him what to do, nobody to project their own fantasies onto him.

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will.

If someone insists they need to be in prison even though the door is unlocked, then I am not going to argue. They are free to stay in prison.

I don't blame them. I never blame anyone but myself. Every second I am manipulated and coerced and beaten down it's because I've allowed it.

Be an entrepreneur at work. An "entre-ployee." Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value—any value—to somebody, anybody, and watch that value compound into a career.

You can either take the blue pill (become depressed about an artificial reality that is never going to return) or take the red pill (fully enter the Choose Yourself era and take advantage of its opportunities).

Never have your happiness dependent on a yes or no decision from one person.

Choose Yourself! Copyright © 2013 by James Altucher