Quotes About Empowerment

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

strength floods in after a fall.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you in a place like this, and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No one is educated who cannot educate himself.

follow Churchill's admonition, "I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you,"123

The past only has power over you when it's forgotten... ignored or repressed.

And so you have more opportunities and more responsibilities than any other generation in history.

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What it really comes down to is the clearness of heart to stop defining who I am by those who have hurt me and to take up the risk to love myself, to validate my own existence, pain and all, from the center out.

So what does it mean to be a spiritual warrior? It is far from being a soldier, but more the sincerity with which a soul faces itself in a daily way. It is this courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.

we must turn water into air in order to live, which for us means turning our experience into something that can sustain us. It means turning pain into wonder, heartache into joy.

how to feel the pain of living without denying it and without letting that pain define us. Ultimately, no matter the burden we are given—apartheid, cancer, abuse, depression, addiction—once whittled to the bone, we are faced with a never-ending choice: to become the wound or to heal.

In this way, I've learned that loving yourself requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world—our own self-worth.

In kingdom churches, it is not good enough if the pastor and staff get to fulfill their destiny while everyone else watches and applauds. It is time for every believer in every church in the West to reach their full potential and to fulfill their destiny in Christ.

Healthy people who do not have a need to control anyone make the best leaders.

Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be extraordinary.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others. —ANDREW CARNEGIE

Genuine, authentic leadership infuses meaning into your life, because you know that your efforts count and that you are serving the needs of others as well as your own.

All leadership begins with self-mastery. You can't lead others until you can first lead yourself.

The people who change the world around them rarely act from a sense of obligation. In fact, the people who act as leaders almost always act from a sense of incredible opportunity. They don't interact with the world around them because they have to. They do so because they want to.

Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves.

The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?

It is easier," said Frederick Douglass, "to build strong children than to repair broken men.

The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being.

A woman wears many hats in one lifetime -- why shouldn't one of them be a crown?