Quotes about Empowering Others

It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference....

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: we did it ourselves.

Being a leader involves choosing the right men to do the right job and letting them do it their way.

John MacArthur writes: "[Andrew] did not seek to be the center of attention. He did not seem to resent those who labored in the limelight. He was evidently pleased to do what he could with the gifts and calling God had bestowed on him, and he allowed the others to do likewise."2

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

One has to wonder, do we really want people to grow, or do we just want to be in control of the moment?

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

Pro tip: If you're attacked by a creep, it's never your fault. Tell somebody.

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

You have the power to help people become winners.

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.

We do have the power to save one another...

True power is the power to empower others.

To be wealthy, powerful or famous does mot matter to me. Starting a social good ripple that will turn to an ocean wave matters to me.

The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.

So often our power lies not in ourselves, but in how we help others find their own strength.

I am an expert at seeing peoples greatness.

Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

May my every action of body, speech, and mind today be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.