Quotes About Empowerment

Are a woman's wishes only fit to be considered when blessed by a male relative?

I set to work making a place for myself in Society, even if it was not the place Society intended for me.

Democracy without women in power is not democracy at all.

A man kills enough. A woman keeps on walking.

Nada en este mundo debe ser temido...solo entendido. Ahora es el momento de comprender más, para que podamos temer menos.

No puedes esperar construir un mundo mejor sin mejorar a las personas. Con ese fin cada uno de nosotros debe trabajar en su propia mejora.

The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself.

You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

Don't wait until you find someone. You are someone.

In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the economy, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis

Just because someone doesn't like what you do doesn't mean no one else will. A person's opinion is not The Truth, it's their truth.

If you believed to your core that everything really is figureoutable, what would you now do? What would you create or heal or transform or transcend? Who would you become?

No matter what you're facing, you have what it takes to figure anything out and become the person you're meant to be.

Even if this entire book is bullshit, can you think of a more empowering and pragmatic philosophy to embrace?

All beliefs are a choice and choices can be changed.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you." — Anthony De Mello, Jesuit priest and author

Rule 1. All problems (or dreams) are figureoutable. Rule 2. If a problem is not figureoutable, it's not really a problem—it's a fact of life or law of nature (e.g., death or gravity). Rule 3. You may not care enough to figure this problem out or achieve this particular dream. That's okay. Find another problem or dream that ignites a blazing fire in your heart and go back to Rule 1.

What can I learn from this? How can this work for me?

Awareness is the key that allows you to stop automatically doing things that drive men away and begin naturally doing things that support happy and satisfying relationships. Master this stuff and you'll notice that men, women, children, small animals, large animals, dust bunnies, and anything else that's not glued down will find it virtually impossible to resist you.

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. — Kathleen Tierney Andrews, author

Speaking of taking responsibility, a quick reminder about an essential universal principle: You are 100 percent responsible for your life. Always and in all ways. It's not your parents. It's not the economy. It's not your husband or your wife or your family. It's not your boss. It's not the schools you went to. It's not the government or society or institutions or your age. You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt