Quotes about Empowerment
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will...
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A deep man, believes that the evil eye can wither, that the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson