Wangari Maathai Quotes

Resolve and thou art free.

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Awareness is empowering.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

All I've ever needed is myself.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

My mind's my kingdom.

Only the educated are free.

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.