Quotes about Empowering Others

You've got to keep being 100 percent, keep doing what's best for you and your legacy, and then build and help other people around you, too.

It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.

Help each other, encourage each other, lift each other up.

I don't put limits on anybody.

Bayley is a locker room leader, and an amazing person inside and out. I've watched and learned from her, the way she handles situations and adapts so easily and quickly. She has the ability to make things look so easy.

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

I just do what I can do to be one of the people who make a difference.

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

I want to make a difference.

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

Managers can sometimes hold players back for their own benefit.

Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

When you become a leader success is all about growing others.

Take every opportunity to inject self-confidence into those who have earned it. Use ample praise, the more specific the better.

Fundamentally management is your ability to inspire people to do their best and that is all you can do. If everybody around you is doing his best, that is the best possible management that can happen.

Genuine love means respecting the humanity of the other person, wanting what is best for him or her, and supporting the other person's self-esteem and independence. This kind of love is incompatible with abuse and coercion.

Go for it, never back down, and don't give in, because there's no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.

Good management consist of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people's potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won't let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights.

Take yourself out of the picture. Get in the habit of asking what's best for the team. For example, the next time you are at a problem-solving meeting and everyone is contributing ideas, instead of promoting yourself, ask yourself how the team would do if you were not involved in the solution. If it would do better, then propose ideas that promote and involve people other than yourself.

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

If you want someone to believe in you, believe in others.