Quotes About Empowerment

In terms of leadership, you've got to allow for people to be amazing and to contribute in a way that's meaningful. You can't hold on so tight that people don't get a chance to do what they do best.

With 'Bring It On,' I really have to give most of the credit to the people who lifted me up. In cheerleading, a lot of the work is from the guys lifting you, and my body would just have to stay straight or firm or tight.

When I was doing the IPL (Indian Premier League), I was expected to wear tight dresses. It took me a really long time to understand that you don't have to fit into an outfit and you should be able to own what your put on.

If I have long hair, I go for more... fitting, like a miniskirt dress or a very tight black leather outfit.

So the very way in which you experience life—whether you see it as sweet or sour, beautiful or ugly, pleasant or unpleasant—is your responsibility, as your ability to respond is what determines the nature of your experience.

When I look back now, I realize that I never thought about what I wanted to become in life. I only thought about how I wanted to live my life. And I knew that the "how" could only be determined within me and by me.

This is the sole purpose of the spiritual process. The life and work of every spiritual guide, across history and across culture, has been just this: to point out that the cage door does not exist. Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice. The

Compassion is definitely a more liberating emotion than love.

When computers were vast systems of transistors and valves which needed to be coaxed into action, it was women who turned them on. When computers became the miniaturized circuits of silicon chips, it was women who assembled them . . . when computers were virtually real machines, women wrote the software on which they ran. And when computer was a term applied to flesh and blood workers, the bodies which composed them were female.

Don't change yourself for someone, you're not living your life to impress anyone.

Make yourself the first priority.

If I had to do it all over again, I would have encouraged employees to make more mistakes. —Thomas Watson, IBM

In this other life, she would not be required to take all the shit that no one else would accept and pretend to be grateful.

Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.

Love is the saving grace. It's the buddha in you standing up and saying, "Even though it's dark, I have this jewel.

is biology destiny? And the answer is yes, sometimes it is. Women who have the fewest choices of all exercise their right to abortion the most.

Write for yourself and yourself alone. Don't try to please anyone else, and don't be afraid of anyone.

in Afghanistan, the women refer to their illiteracy as blindness. When I asked them what they meant by that, one woman explained: 'I couldn't read, so I couldn't see what was going on.' In fewer than a dozen words, she described a system that men in power have relied on for centuries-keep women uneducated so they won't know what's going on.

The changes I describe in this book are not about the triumph of women over men, Western values over Eastern, or one religion over another. They're aimed at solving the world's most intractable problems - poverty, conflict, and violence.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

Own your faith. Take responsibility for the miracles God wants to do in and through your life. No one else can faithfully show the people He has entrusted into your care what it means to live by faith. No one else can accomplish the work He created you to do.

Owning your life—your actions and decisions, and their consequences—must begin with a healthy view of yourself that is based on what God thinks of you. Once you listen to His voice, your self-perception will change.

You are capable of more than you know. You are the right one to handle your life. And what is more, you are never alone in the journey. You have your Girls' Club around you, and more fundamentally than that, you have God. I think you have it in you to go a little bit farther.

Each of us is a steward of the days allotted for our lifetime, and learning to manage our commitments and priorities is critical. We can become empowered Christians who live meaningful lives. We can love generously and have relationships that satisfy. We can leave the past behind and own a life without condemnation. We are made to accomplish great feats of faith and courage and to live a life worth telling.