Quotes That Will Empower You To Take Back Control Of Your Life

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts. - Francis Bacon

You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be. - Elizabeth Alraune

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.- Kyle Chandler

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.- Evelyn Waugh

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. - Francesca Reigler

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Arnold Glasgow

Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it. - Chris Brogan

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. - George Eliot

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K. Rowling

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. - Guy Finley

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. - Jonathan Winters

You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this: At least I tried. - Ann Brashares

Whether you say you can or you can’t, you’re right. - Walt Disney

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh

Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. - Nora Roberts

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. - Alice Walker

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. - Theodore Roosevelt

I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all. - Brian Tracy

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t. - Steve Maraboli

Stop fighting yourself and start fighting for yourself. - The Revolutionary Impact

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask yourself if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. - Deepak Chopra

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. - Emory Austin

We have a choice: To plow new ground, or let the weeds grow.

- Virginia Department of Agriculture brochure, 1959

Stand up and walk out of your history. - Dr. Phil McGraw

You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. - Steven D. Woodhull

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. - Mo Williems

Being single means getting over the illusion that there is somebody out there who will complete you and (finally) taking charge of your own life. - Omkar Phatake

Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. - Robin Sharma

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back because if you can look up, you can get up. - Eric Thomas

We are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. - Barry Manilow

You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding. - Cheryl Strayed

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. - Robert Tew

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me. - Joshua Graham

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it. - Cheryl Strayed

It is never too late to be who you might have been. - George Eliot TC Mark

By Heidi Priebe, Thought Catalog

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Out Of The Box August 02, 2017