Quotes About Empowerment

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me'

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Be a leader, not a superior.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.