Empowerment

Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so father’d and so husbanded?

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

A woman’s time of opportunity is short, and if she doesn’t seize it, no one wants to marry her, and she sits watching for omens.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

Know how to rely on yourself.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

God has entrusted me with myself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak .

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.