Quotes About Empowerment

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but instead, "I have given it back.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

Bring on whatever difficulties you like, Zeus; I have resources and a constitution that you gave me by means of which I can do myself credit whatever happens.

If someone tried to take control of your body and make you a slave, you would fight for freedom. Yet, how easily you hand over your mind to anyone who insults you.

What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.

Whenever someone helps or hinders you, or praises or criticizes you, remember that they see you only through the lens of their own impressions. If they act or speak from a warped perspective, they hurt themselves—not you.

No man is free unless he is the master of himself.

Every challenge is presented to you so that you will choose love and turn away from negativity and blame.

No person is free who is not master of themselves.

It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things.

Where are you going to find serenity and independence – in something free, or something enslaved?

No man can rob us of our Will—no man can lord it over that!

If you take care of it and identify with it, you will never be blocked or frustrated; you won't have to complain, and never will need to blame or flatter anyone.

If you wish to be free, do not desire anything that depends on another, lest you make them your master.

Free is the person who lives as he wishes - And cannot be coerced, impeded, or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires, and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Make the best use of what's in your power and take the rest as it happens (Epictetus)

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

no man is free until he s a master of himself!!

Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.

You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.