Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

A strong spirit transcends rules.

Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I have my own strength.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

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.

The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self... Stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength.

As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation... I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.

I have stood on my own feet.

I'm not a person who lives for sympathy.

That power of the individual person - just the girl - is infinite.

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

Truth is, I'm stronger on my own.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.