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Quotes About Empowerment

Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.
~ Pat Heim
Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.
~ Jessica Sorensen
I wore that same outfit that the male model over there is wearing. It's inclusive, it feels good and that's what I wanted. I want people to feel good.
~ Zendaya
With Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.
~ Graham Nash
Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.
~ Arne Duncan
Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
~ Arthur Adamov
Coaching is helping people discover what they could not discover on their own, so they can become what they want to become.
~ Aubrey Malphurs
The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.
~ Barbara Cook
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
~ Betty Buckley
I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.
~ Betty Friedan
Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.
~ Brenda Song
I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.
~ Bridget Moynahan
I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.
~ Candace Parker
And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
~ Carl Karcher
I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.
~ Carol Vorderman
Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.
~ Cher
I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.
~ Cindy Margolis
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.
~ Cyndi Lauper
I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.
~ Darren Johnson
Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.
~ David Emerald Womeldorff
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
~ Desmond Tutu
I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
~ Drew Barrymore