self-empowerment quotes

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I can do whatever I want.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Only you can control your future.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I am what I am. A fighter.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

What is true belongs to me!

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.