Quotes About Empowerment

Ser você mesmo em um mundo que está constantemente tentando fazer de você outra coisa é a maior realização.

Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.

De multe ori, viitorul unui om a depins de lectura unei c?r?i.

In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

the sermon, that most flexible of art forms. Take the form of the sermon and make it your own. Whether you are standing behind a pulpit, in a lecture hall, or in a field, nothing can stop you from speaking the truth according to your life and conscience. The hearts of the people are thirsty for new hope and new revelation.

let him look into [fear's] eye and search its nature, inspect its origin, - see the whelping of this lion, - which lies no great way back; he will then find in himself a perfect comprehension of its nature and extent; he will have made his hands meet on the other side, and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

Changing our thoughts, Emerson asserts, can actually change our circumstances.

It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, and inspirational--a south wind and not an east wind.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The negro has saved himself and the white man very patronizingly says, I have saved you.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

How you meet your own commitments is important. Are you doing it by draining energy—driving people relentlessly, or burning them out by making impossible demands? Or are you expanding the capacity of the organization by helping people grow and expand their own capacities? In other words, there's a right and a wrong way to delegate.

If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!

The abstract point of this is that we don't do anything to anybody else, anyway. Actually, people do things to themselves, and we are merely the environment in which they do it when they are ready.

woman once came to Gandhi with her young son. "Mahatma-ji, tell my son to stop eating sugar. It's not good for him." Gandhi told her to return with her son in a week's time. When they returned, Gandhi said to the boy, "Stop eating sugar." The woman was perplexed and asked Gandhi why he couldn't have told the boy that a week earlier. Gandhi replied, "Because at that time I had not given up sugar." What

You gave us a lawyer; we gave you back a Mahatma.