Quotes About Empowerment

Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, 'What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?'

When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life.

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit.

Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution.

A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you.

Today they are still strong and self-sufficient, not wilting flowers waiting for a man to help. They shoe their own horses and peel logs and build homes and get anything done that needs doing. They are feminine and wild as a mountain meadow.

Who will save your soul, if you won't save your own?

My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own And I am never broken

Negative self-criticism is an iron chain that will never let you ascend to real greatness.

I spent a lifetime being small for those closest to me but this is not the woman my son will know

Engage in a loving archaeological dig back to yourself. Let all that is not yours within you fall away until only your real nature remains.