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Quotes About Empowerment

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
We're half the people, we should be half the Congress.
~ Jeannette Rankin
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
~ Charlotte Bunch
Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.
~ Barbara Bush
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
~ Wilma Pearl Mankiller
[My father] said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.
~ Maria Goeppert Mayer
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
~ Barbara Mikulski
You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
~ Marcia Wieder
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
~ Madonna
Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
~ Euripides
All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
~ Matthew
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
~ Erich Fromm
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
~ Max Stirner
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
~ Harriet Woods
Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.
~ Mary Ann Allison
The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.
~ Ella Baker
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.
~ Lou Ann Walker
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
~ Diana, Princess of Wales
The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
~ Isadora Duncan