Quotes about Empowering Others

Leadership is the ability to make things happen.

He who illumines one has begun illumining the world.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

I realized, if I don't step into the spotlight, and the person next to me doesn't step in, and the people around me don't step in, then who will?

Part of my role and part of my job is to shine a spotlight on issues that need that spotlight, whether it's people, whether it's causes, issues, whatever it is.

Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.

My intent is to party and have fun and to help the world and help all people become stronger and successful in whatever they do. That's what I spread.

I would love to be able to tour and get to be able to read people who might not be able to afford to go to L.A. and really just spread my ability and share it as much as I possibly can.

The reality of the matter is I'm blessed to be able to do what I can and to have this platform. For me, I'm going to try and do everything that I can to use that platform to help those who don't have the ability to spread their voice that people will hear them.

Spreading the wealth and giving other assistant coaches their due is critical.

No matter what squad I go to, I always feel I can add something to it.

I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

Being a role model means you can stand up and fight for things.

I'm a real freedom fighter. I'm not a pretend freedom fighter. I stand up for other actresses, other people.

You can only govern men by serving them.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...