Tom Rath Quotes

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

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

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

Know your power.

One creates oneself.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

When you do it yourself, you feel better.

I would love to see every woman feel that she knows who she is and how she wants to lead. Every part of me is passionate about having the ability to do what I never could do when I was young.

You have to empower yourself.

I don't want to do things to do things. I want them all to make sense to me.

Every woman has different needs and wants.