Quotes About Empowerment

Walt Whitman: I am larger, better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.

The bottom line is: Your life is up to you. Take charge of it, or somebody else will.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Being assertive is understanding that you can't control what others may do, but you can control your own behavior.

give their employees wacky titles of their own choosing.

Most of us feel that we live in a reality we didn't choose. When we come across somebody who inspires us to rise above the limitations that we set for ourselves, we can't help but feel inspired.

As the old saying goes, "The person who masters himself masters the world.

Confrontation, which is often the one thing victims want to avoid most, is inevitable. Victims will have to confront their own fears, senses of obligation, and feelings of guilt. Likewise, they are going to have to confront the blackmailer. While these are daunting tasks, victims must assert themselves in order to break the cycle.

Finally, one great benefit of mastering "no" is that you give yourself so much more time and energy to pursue what you really care about, i.e. all those things you can say a hearty and resounding yes to!

Focus instead on what is possible. Focus instead on the fact that if you choose to impose your personal will on your personal reality today, things can happen. That's what confidence can do for you. This

We can't choose what happens around us. But we can always choose how we respond to our greater reality.

Quelle délivrance tandis que tous ces mots sortaient de ma bouche… Une partie de ma vie s'achevait, une vie qui m'avait été imposée. Désormais, ce serait moi qui déciderais de mon sort.

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I'm just a girl." "It is tragic how well you have been taught to say that with sadness rather than triumph.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

TODD!" I shout again - And he looks at me - And I hear my name in his Noise - And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together - And we're gonna win -

Little girls aren't naturally lost," Karen said, frowning as she scanned saucepans. "Someone makes them that way.

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled It's not a weakness- It's your best strength- ... I know it in my heart- Right now- Todd Hewitt- There's nothing we can't do together- And we're gonna win -