Veronica Roth Quotes

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.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

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.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

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

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Rise above yourself.