Quotes about Empowerment

It is so tremendously important that the women of the Church stand strong and immovable for that which is correct and proper under the plan of the Lord. They must begin in their own homes. They can teach it in their classes. They can voice it in their communities. They must be the teachers and the guardians of their daughters. When you save a girl, you save generations. I see this as one bright shining hope in a world that is marching toward moral self-destruction.

We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat, or we can talk ourselves into victory.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do great and good things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. Believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. You are not destined to be a scrub. You are a child of God, of infinite capacity.

Each of you is a daughter of God. Reflect on all the wondrous meaning of that one paramount fact.

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself;

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

They themselves are makers of themselves.