Mikheil Saakashvili Quotes

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

The people are their own liberators.

Every problem we have in this country we created and we can fix it.

Our nation's leaders are fallible. It is therefore time for us to be our own heroes. We can and must be the leaders that are so desperately needed.

Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.

Don't rely on leaders to do things you're equipped to do yourself.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

The smartest thing a woman can ever learn, is to never need a man.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes you one of those women men like to call 'a pal' and 'a good sport,' the kind of woman they tell their troubles to. But you've cut yourself off from the orchids and the diamond bracelets, except those you buy yourself.

In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we have waited for a mighty military victory, but we were defeated roundly; we have waited for outside powers (the United States or, in its time, the Soviet Union), but none came to our aid. The one thing we have not tried in all seriousness has been to rely on OURSELVES: until we do that with a full commitment to success there is no chance that we can advance towards self-determination and freedom from aggression.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

I wanted to be my own heroine.