Empowerment

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me." And then you have found that attitude, follow it.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,

Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

I s’pect I growed. Don’t think nobody never made me.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

When we take people, thou wouldst say, merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

A woman can hardly ever choose … she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

I am monarch of all I survey,

To the very last he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of La carrière ouverte aux talents, The tools to him that can handle them.

Be a governess! Better be a slave at once!

I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.