Quotes about Empowering Others

You really can change the world if you care enough.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

Give all your gifts away in service to the world.  If you want to paint, don't wait for a grant, paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting.  You never know who is going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.

A good conversationalist directs attention, inspires, corrects, affirms, and empowers others. It is a demanding vocation that involves attentiveness, skilled listening, awareness of one's own interpretive frames, and a will to understand and discern what is true.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

Healthy people who do not have a need to control anyone make the best leaders.

The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?

The most powerful and effective managers, coaches, parents, and motivators are those who can represent the circumstances of life to themselves and to others in a way that signals success to the nervous system in spite of seemingly hopeless external stimuli.

The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more. And you will have the opportunity to earn more—whether

I constantly strive to learn and to make new and more powerful distinctions about ways to add value to other people's lives.

What doesn't work in the box 1. Trying to change others 2. Doing my best to "cope" with others 3. Leaving 4. Communicating 5. Implementing new skills or techniques

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.

My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

Whenever you get to change somebody's life or watch it and see it happen, it's amazing.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

We must desire to see people rising in life, rather than looking for ways to contribute to their fall.

We make the world most possible by helping the people we encounter be their most possible.

Don´t make people feel necessarily happy. Make them feel useful.

Never grow weary of giving, Your small contribution can make someone else's life worth living.

You have been conveyed into God's kingdom to help others get out. You have been released to release others. You are set free that you might go forth and set others free.

Question: Is there one takeaway you want readers to carry with them? JK: Yes. In these turbulent times, sufficient leadership, not just from the top couple of people, is very important, far too rare, and it does not have to be that way. It often starts with only one person not looking away or waiting for something to happen, but seizing opportunities to act where others see problems, fault or threat. Why couldn't that one person be you, or anyone reading this interview right now?

Empower Others to Act. Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so. Encourage others to remove barriers and make true innovation happen.