Quotes About Empowerment

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation.

They are able who think they are able.

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives.

God helps them that helps themselves.

Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.