Ani DiFranco Quotes

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

I've learned about myself that I'm much stronger than I ever had any idea about myself.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

My voice is stronger today than ever.

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.

Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

I believe my past is my strength.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

I can live with myself.

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

I think it can be a good idea to know what you do well and use that to open the door for yourself. Once you open the door, close it behind you, and start to make changes.

Know your power.