Quotes About Empowerment

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

You can really Lead Without a Title.

My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.

My chief 'success philosophy' is, 'Give people every opportunity to say "Yes" to you'.

Admire yourself and others will admire you', a hundred times more useful in our days than the Greek one: 'Know thyself', which has now been replaced by the less demanding and more profitable art of knowing others.

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing

Tu mais tarde não obedecerás aos teus medos.

N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

A nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak

Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science;

the invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes;

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

The jury, which is the most energetic means to make the people rule, is also the most effective means to teach them to rule.

And now, As I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if I am asked how we should account for the unusual prosperity and growing strength of this nation, I would reply that they must be attributed to the superiority of their woman.

literature became an arsenal where the poorest and the weakest could always find weapons to their hand.

Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it.

Whoever seeks anything from freedom but freedom itself is doomed to slavery.

There is no Indian so wretched as not to retain under his hut of bark a lofty idea of his personal worth;

It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men;

The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.

You must own nothing but yourself.

God helps those who help themselves.