Yolanda King Quotes

Awareness is empowering.

My hope is that people experience the music and, in that, something works in them, that they realise how exceptional they are. Maybe that it inspires them to do something great in their own lives.

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

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

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.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

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.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

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.'

Before you can do something you must first be something.