Quotes about Empowering Others

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading down any of their own number.

I love giving back. There were a lot of people when I got started who really helped me. I do a lot of seminars and appearances. It's neat to be able to be in a position to do that. I've always loved coaching; it's how I got started.

I'm here to clean minds of negativity and build confidence in others.

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

As a child, my father taught me to never take my freedoms for granted. He challenged me to fight for what is right.

The right way to win is to recognize that winning isn't the end game, but rather the beginning of new opportunities - maybe even opportunities to help other people win.

If you treat people nicely, and you allow them to fulfill a role that is satisfying for them, they'll accomplish a lot, and they'll enjoy their work.

I'm able to impact people's lives by the way I play, but there's so much more things I can do so there is no limit to what I can do.

You know, everything adds up. It's what I keep saying in my books and in Cosmo. If you do every little thing you can do in your own modest position, one thing leads to another. So do it and be it and write the letters and make the phone calls and get on with it.

We, each of us, can take control of the world.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody.

Goethe: "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs." "That was it, exactly," Frankl said. "Those are the very words I had written." WILLIAM J. WINSLADE

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.

To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves!

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." —GOETHE

Like the captain of a ship, you should always consult with your officers before making a decision, taking their viewpoints and suggestions into account. But the decisions are ultimately yours, and you must make them. If you don't, circumstances will make your decisions for you.

By the grace of God and by keeping busy making life better for others. That is how women always get through the hard parts of life.

We're your safe place, El. Me and Elise. The guys. We're your family. You don't need to pull lattes. You have your degree, you have a great job and you'll take the crappy part of your past and use that to help people get to the good part of their future.

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

The world doesn't get better on its own. It gets better because people make it better: penny by penny, vote by vote, and one lesson at a time. So: Start where you are. Use what you have. Help who you can.