Quotes About Empowerment

Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenseless--the men with small cottages and large families--the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week--these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.

Xerography is bringing a reign of terror into the world of publishing, because it means that every reader can become both author and publisher,

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

a "free People think they have a right to an Explanation of the Circumstances which give rise to the Necessity under which they suffer.

I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unitarian minister and essayist

Farangs don't understand us Thais. They think if a girl sells her body, then she has no dignity, no limits. Actually, the opposite is often the truth. Women like your mother are very free spirits. Could you imagine Nong ever holding down a normal job? Or putting up with abuse from a man? A woman might sell her body because it's more dignified and safer than being married to a violent drunk who goes whoring without protection.

Non avevo mai avuto l'impressione di crescere all'ombra di mia madre: vivevo nel mio mondo, uno spazio di cui lei aveva delimitato i confini, lasciandomi però libera di riempirlo come meglio credevo. Mia madre viveva come aveva scelto di vivere, e sapevo che il lavoro era la cosa che contava di più per lei, ma questo consentiva anche a me di vivere come volevo e di decidere liberamente cosa contava di più per me...

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet."4

Making weak things strong is the Savior's specialty, and the way we receive such individual help is through humility and a willingness to come unto Christ.

For when it starts feeling like a prison in there—and it usually does for most people—you are confronted with the fact that the bars are of your own making.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

The second kind you make yourself. Most people, most of their lives, most of their problems, they simply invite into their lives, sweep out a guestroom for each pain, and give it free lodging and board.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it.

Did not God assist us, we should not only not be able to conquer, but not able even to fight.

Laughter is a force for democracy.

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.

If the mother was not married at either conception or birth, the details of the putative father could not be entered on the certificate without both his written consent and that of the mother. In other words, there was little to stop a woman