Quotes About Empowerment

After 'Freaks and Geeks ' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek ' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

Art gives you power, use it wisely.

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

Courageous men are those who have walked from far unknown backward villages to come and lead the economists elites, army Generals, cooperate workers in Urban communities

Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there"—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you're suffering in paradise.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

You can't expect men to appreciate you. Sometimes they will, sometimes they won't. Even women won't always appreciate what you do, so why should the men understand you any better? The only person who will always know what you did, and why you did it, is yourself. If you try to do what's right, that should be enough. Remind yourself of that when it seems as if it isn't.

But we made a pact that night to try. To stay true to ourselves and each other. It's what you have to do when you're a girl. Stick together. Remember what you love. And stay true.

It is more than just maintaining or even growing a church, but believing your church can reach an entire city or a region; believing they can make a difference.

Servant leadership is passionate service to the mission and to those who join the leader on that mission.

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.

Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.

Isn't there a way to break the patterns of the past and tune into our highest future possibility—and to begin to operate from that place?

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.