Quotes About Empowerment

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Freedom is an inside job.

Whoever authors your story authorizes your actions.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

I've been my own man. Ain't nothing richer than that

the point is, every woman is a vessel of beauty, life, and love—though most don't know it. And all the forces of evil in the world are dead-set against her. That's why loving a woman is the hardest battle you'll ever face. Love isn't going to fall

The easiest way to lead, it turns out, is to serve.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him," he wrote. "Fail to honor others and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'we did this ourselves.'

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Patience, coexistence, restraint, that's my advice for single women.

Religions need women. Who else would do all the work?

Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don't feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs off cells every day, aging. After all that, what is left to feel humiliated? Very little indeed.

People who care, act, and refuse to give up may not change THE world, but they can change many individual worlds.

Listen," he said firmly. "If you hear nothing else, hear this. You work at the White House. There is no other room where a bunch of really smart people of sound judgment are getting together and figuring out what to do. It will be the scariest moment of your life when you fully internalize this: There is no other meeting. You're in the meeting. You are the meeting. If you have a concern, raise it.

Protection does not come in a bottle. It is in me, in my actions, in my thoughts. I am the best medicine for myself. I am the cure and the disease.

Do women need circles drawn in dust to protect them? But my brother took her from there, from the narrow confines of the circle where she stood, and brought her here. He offered her the freedom of this entire country. Was that captivity?

whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control.

She gained fame in 1895 when she became the third woman to scale the Matterhorn—and the second to do so in trousers, at a time when women could be arrested for wearing them in public.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." -Bruce Lee

that I could show Danielle's face and share her story with every young lady out there making bad decisions about sex, often in an empty quest for love and validation—especially African Americans.

We assume that young women know what to do for their bodies and are just behaving irresponsibly. Unfortunately, I'm too often reminded that, in fact, they don't have the information they need to make responsible choices, and that their sexual decisions are sometimes not just spontaneous but also based on myths and half-truths.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.