Quotes About Empowerment

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

I wish to be, I can be, I have the right to be, I have the ability to be. I swear to myself that this will never be for my personal profit, but to help others. I wish to be, to help others. This is to be understood as a vow.

people don't respond well to being told what they must do.

In teams where there are significant power differences, when team members with less power are better able to speak up, the team has more success implementing new technology changes.

if you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.

Was soll denn an dieser Behinderung Besonderes sein? Raúl Krauthausen ist einfach ein sehr beeindruckender Mensch mit starken Gaben. Er hat viel zu sagen und sich über seinen Rollstuhl schon lange erhoben.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

To let go is not to criticize and regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be. To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To let go is to fear less and love myself more.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging the outcome, but to allow others to affect their own destinies. To let go is not to be protective. It's to permit another to face reality.

To let go is to fear less and love myself more.

Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?' 'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.' 'A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests.

Your kitchen is not inferior to a queen's boudoir!' I replied with a pleasant smile, 'but we must leave it now; for the gentlemen may be cursing me for keeping them away from their duties in the kitchen so long.' We both laughed heartily.

The era is over when men would trample on us and still have us licking their boots.

My father he always say that the oil is already inside the student, already there from all time. The teacher only has a match and makes it light, and then the student isn't a student anymore, just a friend, going the same way down the dark road but seeing now by himself.

A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.

If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

when men at last accept the fact that they cannot successfully lie to themselves, and at last learn to take themselves seriously, they discover previously unknown and often remarkable recuperative powers within themselves.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

Our task, then, is to strengthen our consciousness of ourselves, to find centers of strength within ourselves which will enable us to stand despite the confusion and bewilderment around us.

Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.

Lila was in no hurry to leave; it was pleasurable for her to see herself in my silently adoring gaze, where she reigned—I was her kingdom....

Tout ce que je veux dire, c'est que si les hommes cédaient toujours à ce qu'il y a en eux de plus humain, il y a longtemps qu'ils ne seraient plus des hommes.