You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

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.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

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

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I love women with attitude.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Women don’t try to use me.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

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

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

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

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

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

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

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

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I was raised to be independent.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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 thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.