Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

You must know what you are capable of.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Know your power.

I believe that anyone with a bit of guidance can act.

You have to empower yourself.

The big message is, you're the star in your own life. You don't have to change; you are who you are. Go and do what you want to do.

It's very important for females to feel empowered. It took me a long time to find that inside me.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world.

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

I now go beyond other people's fears and limitations. I create my life.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.