Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Know your power.

What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.

You have to empower yourself.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

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.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

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

All I've ever needed is myself.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

You must know what you are capable of.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

I feel confident. I feel empowered. I feel in control.

It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.

Once you believe in yourself, you can pretty much do whatever you want in my opinion, so that is the main thing.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

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

Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.