Quotes About Empowerment

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy . . . is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." —Ral ph Waldo Emerson

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.

My slogan? PUT A BLACK FINGER ON THE NUCLEAR TRIGGER. 400 years of docility, of being calm, cool and collected under stress and strain would go to prove that I was the man for the job, that I would not panic in a crisis and push the button.

Revolutionary power grows out of the lips of a pussy

Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.

O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. —Lucrezia de' Medici O

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.