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Quotes about Empowering Others

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.
~ John P. Kotter
The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
~ Nandan Nilekani
I think it's so important as a woman, and especially as a minority, to lift as you climb. So having people shadow you or mentoring people - that's important to me.
~ Maria Taylor
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
~ Thomas Jefferson
he who saves the life of one man saves the entire world.
~ Thomas Keneally
I must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them. My
~ Thomas Merton
must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them.
~ Thomas Merton
Stop driving yourself—and everyone else—crazy thinking about how to make yourself successful. Start thinking about how you're going to make everyone around you successful.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
La función de un líder creativo no es concebir la totalidad de las ideas, sino impulsar una cultura en la que todos puedan generarlas.
~ Ken Robinson
Servant leadership is passionate service to the mission and to those who join the leader on that mission.
~ C. Gene Wilkes
I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
~ Candice Swanepoel
Lama Tenzing, we are all equal beings in the universe," he'd told me more than once. "If you hold others in the thought that they are victims, you rob them of their power. If you hold others as fully responsible for their own destiny, you ennoble them by treating them as equals.
~ Gay Hendricks
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
~ George Burton Adams
You've accepted that you can't change the country much less the world, but you can help some individuals.
~ Isabel Allende
I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.
~ Lynsey Addario
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.
~ Chinese proverb
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
~ Dorothy Day
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
~ Henry Ford
The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.
~ Mary Parker Follett
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
~ Diana, Princess of Wales
Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right, there is no love. There is only masked fear.
~ Bonaro Overstreet
One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik