Quotes about Empowering Others

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

I want to have an empire. I like being in front of the camera, performing - but I would like to get to a place where I'm also executive producing and bringing other people along. People of all different walks of life, highlighting their voices.

It is definitely what my aim is to get everyone to do their part and take on that responsibility of being a leader - whether you are playing or on the bench or if you have not made the team.

If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place.

I want to empower and love, to be empowered and empower others. Because when we send out good energy, it comes back at us and makes the world a better place.

I always think if you're blessed and you've got great opportunities for some reason, you really should go and try to pass that blessing on to other people and go on and try to give them opportunities they wouldn't have and try to be that blessing.

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.

I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things.

I want to be one of the leaders that's going to keep the light shining bright.

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

There is a difference between a hand out and a help up. Brothers need to help brothers. They don't do it enough.

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Before I became a leader, I thought success was all about building myself up. But then, once I became a leader, I realized that success is about building others up.

How you meet your own commitments is important. Are you doing it by draining energy—driving people relentlessly, or burning them out by making impossible demands? Or are you expanding the capacity of the organization by helping people grow and expand their own capacities? In other words, there's a right and a wrong way to delegate.

Do not underestimate the role you may play in clearing the obstacles in someone's spiritual journey.

and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creative method—not the competitive one.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

Nimitz kept avoiding the hands that attempted to steer him off the wing and into a crash boat. Finally, an eighteen-year-old seaman second class lost patience with the white-haired gentleman, and knowing neither his identity nor his rank, he shouted out, "Commander, if you would only get the hell out of the way, maybe we could get something done around here." Nimitz merely nodded and finally clambered into the waiting boat.

Leadership," said Nimitz, "consists of picking good men and helping them do their best for you. The attributes of loyalty, discipline and devotion to duty on the part of subordinates must be matched by patience, tolerance and understanding on the part of superiors.