Self Empowerment Quotes:

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Empowering, Empowerment, Self Empowerment, Personal Improvement

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Long, Abundance, Self Empowerment

No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.

- Wallace D. Wattles

source: Wallace D. Wattles, Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Louis M. Grafe, N. H. Moos, John McDonald “Get Rich In Spite of Yourself Collection - An "If You Can Count to Four..." Reference”, Lulu.com

topic: Empowerment, Self Empowerment, Ifs

Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.

- Walt Disney

topic: Dream, Self Empowerment

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Indomitable, Indomitable Spirit

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Power Of The Mind, Inspiration And Motivation

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

topic: Self, Empowerment, Initiative, Self Empowerment

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom, Storms Of Life, Tall Ships

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.577, Open Road Media

topic: Strong Women, Taken, Power, Self Empowerment

Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.

- Christiane Northrup

topic: Healing, About Yourself, Personal Power, Gynecologists, Obstetricians

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Waiting, Helping, Save Yourself, Helpers, Self Help

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Pain, Past, Ideas, Starting Anew, Self Empowerment

Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

- Bryan Kest

topic: Gratitude, Powerful, Stress, Stress Relief, Precursor

The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Struggle, Track, Overcoming, Betterment, Resiliency

Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

- Julia Cameron

source: Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

topic: Successful, Self, Challenges, Self Empowerment

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

- Joyce Meyer

source: Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013

topic: Depression, Uplifting, Attitude, Overcoming Depression, Depressed People

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

- Desiderius Erasmus

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Light, Darkness To Light, Light And Dark

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

topic: Art, Book, Writing, Positive Thoughts, Inspiration And Creativity

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Jobs, Hard Work, Fortune, Continuous Improvement, Self Empowerment

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Courage, Pages, Brightness, Self Empowerment

Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Heart, Outcomes, Steps, Self Empowerment, Allowing

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.

- Billy Mills

topic: Winning, Greatness, Depth, Achieve Greatness, Self Empowerment

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

- Shunryu Suzuki

topic: Perfect, Empowerment, Rooms, Self Empowerment, Always Room For Improvement

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

- Robert E. Quinn

source: Robert E. Quinn (2010). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Change, Successful, Reflection, Inner Growth, Starting Anew

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

- Indira Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Freedom, Women, Repose, Death Anniversary

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!

- Susan Jeffers

topic: Mirrors, Empowerment, Want, Sticker, Self Empowerment

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

- Roseanne Barr

source: "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women, Powerful Women, Women Equality

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

- Malala Yousafzai

topic: Learning, School, Goal, Togetherness, Access To Education

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Choices, Empowerment, Used, Choose Wisely, Lecturer

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Business, Good Life, Knowledge, Horatio, Maximizing

The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Spiritual, Being Yourself, Ego, Social Interaction, Self Conscious

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Time To Move On, Inspirational Adventure Time

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Success, Education, Inspirational Graphic Design, Taking Risks

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

- Erica Jong

source: FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong, Powerful Women, Just Being You

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

- Sarah Addison Allen

topic: Long, Realizing, Choose Wisely, Power Of Choice, Listen To Yourself

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Love, Life, Encouragement, Quaker, Criticise

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Girl, Self Made, Self Empowerment

You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.

- Barbara Marciniak

source: Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.4, New World Library

topic: Spiritual, Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Self Empowerment

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Inspirational Charity, Women Leadership

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

- Audre Lorde

source: Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Honesty, Silence, Empowering, Inspirational Women, Self Empowerment

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

- Gillian Anderson

topic: Helping Others, Volunteer, Feelings, Volunteerism, Economic Empowerment

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Empowering Women, Trying Something New

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

- Cyril Connolly

source: New Statesman 25 Feb. 1933

topic: Inspirational, Respect, Writing, Writing For Yourself, Self Empowerment

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Wisdom, Responsibility, Pants, Blaming Others, Inspirational Presidential

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

- Robert Downey, Jr.

topic: Team, Thinking, Be Confident, Estimating, Self Empowerment

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

- Carlos Castaneda

topic: Courage, Struggle, Warrior, Spiritual Warrior, Way Of The Warrior

We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I have the authority of the King of Kings. I am all in all, and above all, so that God Himself and I, the Vicar of Christ, have but one consistory, and I am able to do almost all that God can do. What therefore, can you make of me but God?

- Pope Boniface VIII

topic: Kings, Able, Christ, Declaring, Self Empowerment