Quotes About Empowerment

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what!

I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don't get to see that.

Black man, you are on your own.

You can be sexy and feel good in your skin, no matter what size you are.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Trust your ability!

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you're in.