Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora EphronTags: empowerment women courage self-determination
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin FranklinTags: self-determination enterprise
Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous.' His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.' Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.
Bryce CourtenayTags: self-determination self-assurance
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
Charlotte BrontëTags: love empowerment gender men women freedom identity integrity romance self-determination independence self-awareness character flaws realism image ideal-woman
You can do anything you want. You don't believe me. You think, she's out of her head. Yeah, I'm out of my head- on being me. What are you on? On being them. You don't even know. I bet you were never given a chance to know. ....Listen. You can be anything you want to be. Be careful. It's a spell. It's magic. Listen to the words.... You are anything...everyone, anyone. ...You listen to them, teachers, parents, politicians. They're always saying, if you steal you're a thief, if you sleep aroung you're a slut, if you take drugs you're a junkie. They want to get inside your head and control you with their fear. ...Don't play their game. Nothing can touch you; you stay beautiful.
Melvin BurgessTags: freedom self-empowerment self-determination anarchy liberation
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: carpe-diem self-determination
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
William ShakespeareTags: self-determination timidity self-responsibility
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
ConfuciusTags: self-determination personal-responsibility self-assessment
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia SatirTags: be-yourself self-determination self-perception
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco ChanelTags: individuality empowerment freedom courage judgment thought self-determination independence speaking-out dignity
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