Quotes About Empowering Yourself

#1. Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

T.D. Jakes

#2. Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Pema Chodron

#3. This is not about you making a million dollars. This is about you embracing the journey. The success was in finally taking this path. And by doing that you are empowering yourself! You are saying, 'My voice matters! What I feel matters! Who I am matters!' That is a full victory right there.

Laura Lynne Jackson

#4. I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

Elizabeth Lesser

#5. If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!

Michael Eisen

#6. You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!

Stephen Richards

#7. I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.

Maya Forbes

#8. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

Stephen Richards

#9. Personal transformation is an internal job.
No one can change you without you first wanting the change for yourself. The transformation starts in your thoughts! Only you can decide to change your thoughts and thus your behavior.

Michelle Word Hollis

#10. The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's empowering and offers a way to speak about yourself that you don't have if all you are doing is reading the newspaper and watching TV.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.

Stephen Richards

#12. The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.

Ruzwana Bashir

#13. Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of yourself but what they forget to tell you is, to get to a point of pleasure you must face the pain.

Nikki Rowe

#14. The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities.

Anil Sinha

#15. When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't involve one more conversation that will remind you of that person's lack of respect for you.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.

let yourself break.

AVA.

#18. listen to Marcus Aurelius's empowering call to "get active in your own rescue - if you care for yourself at all - and do it while you can.

Ryan Holiday

#19. Empower yourself by empowering others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.

Queen Latifah

#21. Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning.

Stephen Richards

#22. Having faith and belief in my inner guidance allows me to see the world in a way that strengthens that faith and belief and brings with it a life filled with welcomed expectation and awe.

Charles F. Glassman

#23. Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#24. Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

Stephen Richards

#25. Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

Teri Hatcher

#26. Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you.

Stephen Richards

#27. I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It's about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you're having, and lending your support to other women. It's empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.

Melanie Brown

#28. Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.

Stephen Richards

#29. no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.

AVA.

#30. Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

Lisa Lucas

#31. True revolutionary change begins by first challenging yourself -- not the world. Until you own your story and the complexities of your experience, no matter how much you may strain against it, you will still be enslaved -- if not by your oppressor, by your past.

Sil Lai Abrams

#32. When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

Stephen Richards

#33. One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.

Zachary Cole Smith

#34. It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there.

Lauren Conrad

#35. Dear YOU, don't compare yourself to ANYONE. Your Unique Self is empowered, powerful, and unstoppable! Your uniqueness is what makes you incomparable! Don't underestimate the beauty of just being YOU.

Stephanie Lahart

#36. Dare to be bold and brave, my BEAUTIFUL QUEENS. Dare to believe that you can. Dare to make your dreams a reality. Dare to get out of your comfort zone and soar! Dare to live your life limitlessly. Dare to be yourself and be comfortable in your own skin. DARE.

Stephanie Lahart

#37. Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

Tony DiCicco

#38. The truth is no one should hold you at a higher standard than yourself

Jerry Gladstone

#39. Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others

John C. Maxwell

#40. With each choice that you make to align yourself with the energy of your soul, you empower yourself. Authentic power is built up step by step, choice by choice. It cannot be meditated or prayed into being. It must be earned.

Gary Zukav

#41. I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

Lois Lowry

#42. Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

Stephen Richards

#43. Practice honest self believe to learn and to better yourself.

Jerry Gladstone

#44. hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.

AVA.

#45. Women should be happy with their bodies. Not being afraid of yourself is very empowering.

Sarah Hay

#46. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.

Liz Hemingway

#47. Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

John Fairclough

#48. To be scientifically literate is
to empower yourself to
know when someone else is
full of bullshit.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#49. Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself ... and put one foot in front of the other.

Hazel Henderson

#50. The most empowering, important belief is the belief in yourself, your capabilities, your strength, your choice, and your most infinite, most divine, most beautiful worth.

Connie Kerbs

#51. It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

Jennie Finch