Empowerment Quotes

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment.

Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.

When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.

I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.

Hit the delete button every time fear appears.

When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others

Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.

Because of the lingering discrimination, many women still lack confidence. They live in fear of stepping beyond what they feel is acceptable 'female' behavior. I can remember feeling that I wasn't 'normal' because I was aggressive, had dreams and goals, and wanted do do great things...I am glad now that I found courage to do something radical and chase my dreams.

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life.

Never believe anyone who tells you that you don't deserve what you want.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Rise and take your stance once again

When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.