#determination

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play. ↗

— Joe Morton

#certain #determination #i #made #many

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#individuality #self-determination #soul

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. ↗

— Barack Obama

#helping-others #hope #initiative #just-do-it #proactivity

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. ↗

— Les Brown

#after #amaze #determination #gifts #go

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#deep down #down #iraqi #iraqi people #out

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. ↗

— James Larkin

#best #class #co-operative #commonwealth #could