Quotes About Empowerment

Gurls Talk is my baby. It's just about opening up a space within schools where we as women and girls can talk about whatever we want.

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

I just want people to understand that regardless of what it is that you do - whether you're a teacher, whether you are a doctor, a single mother, a college student, a big sister - that you have strength within you, and I want people to be inspired to walk in their own superhero regardless of what it is that they do.

I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

Vaccination and other essential preventive services must be delivered close within communities.

Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

Inequality within the deaf and hard of hearing community is something I feel really passionate about and always will do.

If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.