Quotes About Empowerment

I must commit myself to beginning each day by concentrating on positive thoughts and focusing on my goals.

What could you do to make a difference in the world?

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance, and truly begin to live our dreams.

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

As Marcus Garvey would say, "Rise up you mighty people, onward and upward to victory.

There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams. Many

Never let someone else's opinion of you become your reality

What lies behind us and what lies before us, are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Sometimes you've got to believe in someone else's belief in you until your belief kicks in.

Puppets go to sleep the moment they break free from their strings.

The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.

in the Gospel of Matthew: "We desire to show favor to those oppressed on earth, to make them the leaders and the inheritors.

He wasn't there to save her. She must know how to save herself.

It's never too late to have the best day of your life.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd never have known I had a right to be me.

I put on lipstick and high heels and walk down the street arm in arm with you, Jess. This is my life, and I'm damn brave to love who I love. Don't try to take who I am away from me." My chin trembled, "Well, what do you think's being taken away from me? What the fuck am I going to do, Theresa? Tell me, what can I do? ...I don't want to die and I don't know how to live. I'm really afraid.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex.

From that moment on I was her butch and she was my femme.

I had learned a lot in three weeks. I realized that the world could do more than just judge me, it wielded tremendous power over me.

As she climbed down from the stage, I thought: This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.

It is not the words in and of themselves that are important to me - it's our lives. The struggle of trans people over the centuries is not his-story or her-story. It is our-story.

We all have been waiting for help a long time. But it never has been easy. The people must do it. You must do it.