Quotes About Empowerment

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.

Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

Break the Shell": "Child, it's time to break the shell Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.

I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

If you are having a tough time today, push past those boundaries, because by challenging your fears today will become the strength you feel tomorrow... DO WHAT YOU FEAR, DON'T FEAR WHAT YOU DO.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.