Empowerment Quotes

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Only you can control your future."

- Dr. Seuss

"A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves."

- Terri Guillemets

"Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light."

- Yogi Bhajan

"The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail."

- Ramakrishna Paramahansa

"As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world – not just study it."

- Henry Petroski

"Never be limited by other people's imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

- Dr. Mae Jemison

"Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."

- Toni Morrison

"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy."

- Susan Polis Schutz

"Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own."

- Joss Whedon

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Yet I am most Forgiving towards those who repent, believe, do righteous deeds, and stay on the right path."

- Quran 20:82

"And He found you lost and guided [you], And He found you poor and made [you] self-sufficient."

- Quran

"Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."

- Misty Copeland

"Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

"A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself."

- Heidi Wills

"Let’s focus on what people with autism can do, rather than what they can’t."

- National Autistic Society

"Together, we can create a world where everyone, including people with autism, can reach their full potential."

- Autism Society of America

"We may have autism, but autism doesn’t have us."

- Liane Holliday Willey

"Acceptance of the diagnosis of autism can be a huge relief, and can be the beginning of a positive journey."

- Sarah Wild

"I have autism, but autism doesn’t have me."

- Henry Frost

"It doesn’t matter if you have autism, it matters how you use it."

- Liane Holliday Willey

"Autism doesn’t have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality."

- Adrienne Bailon

"I have something to offer this world."

- Star Carter

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds."

- Bob Marley

"Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore, they pack and travel the world."

"Don’t let autism define you, define autism."

- Anonymous

"I believe that each of us carries a bit of inner brightness, something entirely unique and individual, a flame that's worth protecting. When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it."

"I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made."

"Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light."