Quotes about Empowering Others

I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Leadership is service to others.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

Our world desperately needs real leadership.

I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

We need to help people of all circumstance overcome the things in their life.

As Miss Universe, you have to be confident in who you are. Miss Universe has to overcome her fears and teach others to do the same. And nothing is ever too much to ask for. That is exactly who I am.

I used to think that to make something happen in a corporation or in the army, you had to be at the higher ranks, to be a general. But you just need to start a movement.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

It's about knowing that in certain moments you have to offer yourself up as a minor sacrifice to help them accomplish what they need to accomplish. Letting them abuse you, on the other hand, would be a terrible disservice. I know it seems like a fine line, but it's a real one, and it can be done.

Even in a seemingly futile moment or losing cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another, and that person yet a third, who could go on to change the world, or at least a small corner of it. Mandela called this process "the multiplication of courage.

Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.

One person's courage will help the other person to be equally brave.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. No one sacrifices the most important thing she possesses: love. No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.