Quotes About Empowerment

Anxiety might be contagious, but confidence is also contagious

We can make our own choices. We get to choose how we react to all that happens to us.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life — provided he go his own way.... To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be.

being a manager' means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -- the balance wheel of the social machinery.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

You can only take me so low. After that it just doesn't hurt anymore. Your words and blows lose meaning and effect. You lose control of the situation. I can withstand any beating you can administer effortlessly but would die from receiving. How? I have waited. I have paid. I have scarred myself crawling through the guts of the machine, seeing how it works.

Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.

Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't.

I will do to you what you taught me. I will pass my fingers over my scars and read them like Braille and they will tell me what to do.

Don't let them scar you with their weakness. They will cripple you with their lives. They will make you want to die just to get away from them.

Being non-reliant on people for contentment is a strength. Even when I feel like I want to be around people, I starve it out and make it die. I think it's the right thing to do.

My records are good friends. They're an army. Standing straight, in rows, ready to go. Prepared to neutralize sadness and the sometimes crushing pointlessness of almost every pursuit. My heart will not break because my records have built a wall around it.

Open your eyes. Your tears cut a trail. Your scars build a ladder that takes you to a place that you could not have gotten to any other way. Take a look around, remember every second, every breath, every choked scream. Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength. Move on.

I hate misogyny, and I find it everywhere.

The iron is the best antidepressant I have every found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the body and the mind have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.

Disregard females, acquire currency

Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not discouraged by them. They never lose confidence that the problems can be solved. They maintain a positive attitude. Great leaders don't blame their people for not being where they ought to be; they take their people from where they are to where they need to be. Great leaders never lose faith that this is possible.