Quotes about Self-empowerment
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
— Shirley Chisholm
Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you've been given.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
— Carol Burnett
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
— Oprah Winfrey
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 . . . [But] as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.
— Jennifer Lopez
Don't degrade yourself into an abject reptile — don't.
— Emily Bronte
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A materialist would argue that I'm a product of my circumstances. But I make my own circumstances. If I make a change in my dominant thoughts or motives, a change in my situation and surroundings will soon follow. Through my actions, I attract people and situations to match my mentality. As I am, so I act; and as I act, so I attract.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
— Joyce Meyer
I am not going to let negative people control my mood. They have problems and they are not going to give their problems to me.
— Joyce Meyer
The people who are happy are the ones who decide to be happy.
— Joyce Meyer