Quotes About Empowerment

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake.

simply ask five open-ended questions which they know in advance. Question one, what is going well? Two, what is not going well? Three, what are you doing to improve as a leader? Four, what are you doing to improve the organization? And, five, what can I do to help?

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become... helpless, impotent, and weak.

Max Guevara: Girls kick ass; says so on a t-shirt.

There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.

the grace of what makes him different, is what enables him to "stand up.

I've got enormous breasts.

A highly structured, prescriptive model of sheltering and scaffolding is not necessary for effectively educating English learners. In fact, mandating any approach that allows for little deviation is likely to be counterproductive. Just as explicit instruction encourages passive learning, tightly scripted lessons encourage passive teaching.

You have the ingredients inside you to bake the cake you desire, Start Mixing!

I truly enjoy having a true dialog with women, it is always refreshing when I hang out with intelligent women.

We are strong only because of our weaknesses and fears

If you can inspire someone daily that is payment enough

Diversity and Pain is what made me strong and who I am today because of it

Keep your crumbs and the seats at your table, I will go build my own table and seat all Savvy Turtle's like me and we will change the world for the better

A Savvy Turtle investor trains their occupants to do everything from paying rent on time, upkeep, scheduled maintenance, self-betterment etc

When you are betrayed from within put down your sword and gracefully leave and relocate to another place and when the time is right resurface with the stronger and better you

If I were a musical instrument, I would be… Drums as you can beat me all you want to but I still will do things my own way regardless of peer pressure.

Knowledge plus action is power

structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.

For the first time, those who can educate and motivate themselves will be almost entirely free to invent their own work and realize the full benefits of their own productivity.