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Quotes about Empowering Others

She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that woman should be.
~ Karen Andreola
People don't take power. Somebody has to give it to them.
~ Karin Slaughter
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
~ Phillips Brooks
In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.
~ Russell Crowe
I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".
~ Jack LaLanne
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.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him.
~ Napoleon Hill
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
~ J. J. Watt
Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
~ Melinda Gates
Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
~ Derek Sivers
I'll invest my money in people.
~ Will Keith Kellogg
Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.
~ Joy Bryant
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
~ John F. Kennedy
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
~ Mother Teresa
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.
~ Kamala Harris
What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
~ Kamala Harris
Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide
~ Meg Ryan
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
~ Orrin Woodward
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
~ John Buchan
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
~ John C. Maxwell