#empower

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#greatness #inspirational #life #motivational #purpose-of-life

Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choice #devil #evil #god #inspirational

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can ↗

— Martha Graham

#self-empowerment #inspirational

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #ideal-woman

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#freedom #job #students #freedom

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dignity #empowerment #freedom #gender #girls

LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #equality #freedom #happiness #husbands

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#freedom #ownership #freedom