Quotes about Empowering Others

As a child, I sat in the back of the bus. I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard.

Salman makes sure that everyone grows along with him. He is not somebody who will step on your shoulder and move ahead, he will make sure that whoever is with him, he/she should grow with him and that is the best thing about him.

Hopefully my actions will make it easier for them to live their life, to be whoever they want to be.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that they didn't think they'd ever be able to do. That excites me.

I got a message from a little girl just saying that she's starting to play tennis because of me. That was pretty amazing.

I am doing what I can to expand the tent and bring up other people and make sure we are telling different kinds of stories.

I make it happen. Who bought Alex Haley's book 'Roots' for TV? Me. I hired the director, hired the writer. I put them all together. I'm like the chef. If I mix all the ingredients right, it's going to taste terrific. If I don't, it's not going to come out good.

One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

use your gifts and dreams for good

How can I help change things if I sit by and do nothing?

A woman who helps others helps herself.

Let him take his time, with gentle management. Make him feel that he is giving it, not that it is being taken from him with violence.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Sing to your fledglings again

Nothing feels as good as building a team and empowering people, watching them grow and thrive.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Real strength has to do with helping others.