Personal Empowerment Quotes:

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

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Encounters, May, Overcoming, Make People Feel Better, Perserverance

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

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

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

The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost

source: North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Self Determination, Inspiration And Motivation

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Forward In Life, Math Education

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

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

Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.

- Sarah Connor

topic: Real, Moving, Numbness, Personal Empowerment

I think today's young women are an especially powerful breed. They will be taking on even greater challenges, which is why achieving personal empowerment is so important for them. These women are going to be holding positions of significant authority, owning more businesses, and shaping public policy.

- Mary Pope Osborne

source: Source: www.yabookshelf.com

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Challenges, Personal Empowerment

Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.

- Ted Andrews

source: Ted Andrews (2011). “How To Uncover Your Past Lives”, p.6, Llewellyn Worldwide

topic: Book, Writing, Healing, Personal Empowerment, Past Life

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

If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Living History".

topic: Inspiring, Strong Women, Empowerment, Inspirational Career, Career Women

While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you to recognize that you are not a victim. Through the grace of God, you are lifted above and beyond any forces-internal or external-that threaten to limit you. Knowing you're not a victim is a major form of personal empowerment.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Believe, Knowing, People, Personal Empowerment, Course In Miracles

Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.sfgate.com. 2008.

topic: Spring Break, Patriarchal Society, Ariel, Personal Empowerment, Getting Drunk