We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
— Marie Curie
Most Powerful Self Empowerment quotations
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment.
It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
Never dull your shine for somebody else.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you.
No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
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.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them.
Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
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.
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!
First master the fundamentals.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
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.
Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves.
We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you.
In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful.
.. to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?