In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

You are victors, not victims!

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

My fat never made me less money.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.