Quotes About Empowerment

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating.

In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.

[S]o you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers....

Energy is not good or bad, but rather, it is either yours or someone else's.

You can't always control your circumstances, but you can choose to be happy. When you're unhappy it's not the result of circumstances but the result of thought, which is why feeling unhappy often coincides with feelings of helplessness. To be happy is associated with the knowledge that how you think and feel will always be your choice, which will put you in charge of your life.

the more sense it made to me that if my thinking had gotten me in the mess I was in, then my thinking could also be my savior and lead me to a better life.

A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."—As A Man Thinketh

When a teenaged girl asked Trump during a campaign rally whether he believed women deserved equal pay, he irritatingly responded, "Only if you do as good of a job." Well, the question is, how can a woman do as good a job if society is designed in such a way that women don't have equal individual rights?

I haven't made time for pity or blame or even resentment. All of those things take too much energy. I just don't have it to spare.

For a woman to actually repossess herself and to centre there is a monumental task, taking years of difficult, painstaking work…. Once a woman has done the work of re-membering herself, she is much more able to change the world effectively.

There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter

Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.

The world needs you to show up and follow your dreams.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms -- to chose one's attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.

I liked it so much, I bought the company.

We Russians are slaves because we are unable to free ourselves and become citizens rather than subjects.' Alexander Herzen, (1812–1870)

Yes, well, there's something to be said for damsels who need rescuing." Thomas's gaze strayed back to Marianne. She would never need rescuing. And wasn't there something to be said for that as well?

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.